Re: Oops with DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS and ocfs2, autofs4

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/03/2012 11:23 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I left the instruction suffixes in place, although Peter is probably
> right that the assembler will do the right thing.
> 

Yes, and we have <asm/asm.h> for the case where it doesn't (where there
is only a memory operand, for example.)  I tend to put the suffixes in
even if they are redundant, but we already rely on the unsuffixed
instructions working in many, many places.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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