Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
...
> > I'm sure there is no definition because "cli" is the native assembler
> > instruction on x86.
>
> Wrong reason. Furthermore, cli(), meaning 'global interrupt disable,
> across all processors', is not doable with a single instruction anyway.
> It's not defined, because it should not be used - usually the usage of
> cli() means a bug.
Yeah, I noticed I made a thinko here by not looking at the file itself,
and assuming it was just a direct assembler hack... essentially the
C-level variant of what is called in most OSes "splhi/spllo" rather
than "cli/sti", probably because that was how it was originally
used.
Good that it's finally getting purged.
--
Erich Stefan Boleyn <erich@uruk.org> http://www.uruk.org/
"Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"
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