Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] x86/asm: add _ASM_ARG* constants for argument registers to <asm/asm.h>

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Jun 20 2018 - 12:41:19 EST


On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:17 PM H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 06/14/18 13:59, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 1:48 PM H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 06/13/18 14:05, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> >>> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> i386 and x86-64 uses different registers for arguments; make them
> >>> available so we don't have to #ifdef in the actual code.
> >>>
> >>> Native size and specified size (q, l, w, b) versions are provided.
> >>>
> >>> Suggested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> I still object to Suggested-by: here. Sedat did a correction, which is
> >> a Reviewed-by:, but unless I'm completely out to sea, there was no
> >> suggestion on Sedat's part of this; and I had certainly not seen it when
> >> I wrote the code.
> >
> > I'm fine with changing it from a Suggested-by to a Reviewed-by. Can
> > you do that when you apply the set, or should I send a v6?
> >
>
> I'm not handling patch mechanics for x86 at the moment.

Hi Ingo and Thomas,
Have you had a chance to review this patch series for application?

Note that Juergen (the paravirt maintainer) acked the series:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37880
The only issue being swapping a Suggested-by for a Reviewed-by tag for
one commit, as above.

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers