Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes for 3.11-rc2

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Jul 21 2013 - 16:18:09 EST


On 07/20/2013 05:25 AM, George Spelvin wrote:
> It's marginal with only two call sites, but would it be worth factoring
> out the write-back function? Something like this (untested) patch.
> It definitely makes the generated assembly cleaner.
>
> (Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> if you want it.)

Two call sites, statistically "never" executed, really doesn't justify
adding a new assembly function. I was considering making a C wrapper,
though... I would also like to change these to using rdmsrl/wrmsrl.

-hpa


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