Re: [PATCH 13/25] [PATCH] turn msr.h functions into native versions

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 06:19, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:

> +static __always_inline long long vget_cycles_sync(void)

Why is there a copy of this function now? That seems wrong

> +		native_read_tscp(&p);

The instruction is called rdtscp not read_tscp. Please follow that


> +#define rdtsc(low, high)			\

This macro can be probably eliminated, no callers in kernel


-Andi
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