Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
>
> The patch helps. No crashes, meaningful random data - perfect.
> I still have 2 small annotations...

Thanks for testing!

> 1. Having ECX on the clobber-list is not really necessary.
> XSTORE doesn't touch ECX at all.
> REP XSTORE would touch it, but for this ECX would be an input anyways.

The documentation wasn't clear whether ECX would be updated without
the REP prefix so I included it to be on the safe side.  Unfortunately
my only VIA machine is on another continent at the moment so I can't
test it myself.  Can you verify that ECX isn't changed without the
REP prefix?

> 2. Would you mind doing the same for EDX as you did for EDI?
> This doesn't really change anything currently, but will probably help
> avoiding a debug-session like ours somewhere in the future :)

According to my documentation EDX isn't be modified (nor would it
make sense as it would break REP XSTORE).  Are you seeing anything
different?

Thanks,
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