Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/CPU: Add native CPUID variants returning a single datum

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 3:09 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 06:13:24PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> Now you call it and ignore the return value and the compiler optimizes
>> it out :)
>
> Does it, really?
>
> It is an inlined asm volatile. I checked all call sites and the CPUID
> call is there. gcc 6 simply issues the CPUID and then later code
> overwrites rAX. I.e., it looks ok to me.
>
> Or what example scenario do you have in mind?

That's why I didn't type "volatile". :)

>
>> Also, someone reading the code might scratch their head and
>> wonder why you picked eax and not ebx, ecx, or edx.
>
> We have comments for her/him :-)

Okay.  Anyway, this particular nit is minor and I'll shut up.

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