Re: [GIT PULL] x86/paravirt for v2.6.33

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> The second argument is in %edx, but unlike 64 bits, it is not loaded
> into that register a priory ("asmlinkage" means arguments are on the stack.)

Oh, I missed the fact that we don't actually use asmlinkage on 
sys_iopl() at all on x86-32 for this very reason.

And on x86-64, I think asmlinkage is a no-op, so that's ok - we should 
just make the prototype be

	long sys_iopl(long level, struct pt_regs *regs);

and your fancier macros.

			Linus


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