Re: [PATCH] Use wbinvd() macro instead of raw inline assembly in .c files

[Andi Kleen]

On Friday 20 July 2007 00:55:40 Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> This patch uses the already-existant wbinvd() macro to replace
> raw assembly to perform this very same task in some .c files
>     
> Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/tce.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/tce.c
> index f61fb8e..afbb951 100644
> --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/tce.c
> +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/tce.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static inline void flush_tce(void* tceaddr)
>  	if (cpu_has_clflush)
>  		asm volatile("clflush (%0)" :: "r" (tceaddr));
>  	else
> -		asm volatile("wbinvd":::"memory");
> +		wbinvd();

I guess it can be just removed there. I don' think there are any calgary 
machines without clflush

>  }
>  
>  void tce_build(struct iommu_table *tbl, unsigned long index,
> diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
> index 9148f4a..0a75790 100644
> --- a/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static void flush_kernel_map(void *arg)
>  	   much cheaper than WBINVD. Disable clflush for now because
>  	   the high level code is not ready yet */
>  	if (1 || !cpu_has_clflush)
> -		asm volatile("wbinvd" ::: "memory");
> +		wbinvd();
>  	else list_for_each_entry(pg, l, lru) {
>  		void *adr = page_address(pg);
>  		if (cpu_has_clflush)
> 

This code has changed recently in the queue. Please resubmit later.

-Andi


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