Followup to: <[email protected]>
By author: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd guess that this version features improved pipeline parallelism,
> > since we isolate competing %ebx accesses (_syscall4()) and
> > stack push operations (_syscall5()), right?
>
> is anybody actually EVER using those???
> I would think not....
Probably not. The _syscallN() macros are broken for the general case
on any 32-bit architecture, since they can't handle multiregister
arguments.
Similarly, a general syscall() function is broken (in the sense that
one would have to have syscall-specific code to mangle the arguments)
on *some*, but not all, 32-bit architectures, since some architectures
have alignment constraints on multiregister arguments, and the syscall
number argument throws off that alignment.
-hpa
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