Re: [RFC] x86: bitops asm constraint fixes

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 15:55:51 EST


>>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> 03/27/08 9:41 AM >>>
>
>* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Please revert it for the time being, I've got a better version (i.e.
>> without extra dead code being generated) that I intended to submit
>> once I know whether the other issues pointed out in the description on
>> the original patch also should be adjusted. Of course, that could also
>> be done incrementally, but I would think overhauling the whole file at
>> once wouldn't be a bad thing...
>
>since it appears to cause no problems in x86.git (it passed a lot of
>testing already) i'd prefer to keep it (so that we can see any other
>side-effects of touching this code) - could you send your improvements
>as a delta against x86.git/latest? [or is there any outright bug caused
>by your changes that necessiates a revert?]

That's fine with me (and no, there's no bug in there other than the
mentioned dead code generation).

Jan
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