Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:54:34 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86: add memory clobber in switch_to() | |
* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are more places which have segment register reloads without
> adding memory clobbers. Should we fix them up? Here's one of them:
yes, i think so.
> >From 5f135687f7730fbdd979b6fb408fd3ca08a0a678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:53:22 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: add memory clobber in switch_to()
>
> Segment registers are reloaded, so we should add a memory clobber. The
> generated assembly code is identical in my tests, but this doesn't
> mean it is necessarily true for all configurations/compilers.
applied to tip/x86/core, thanks Vegard.
Ingo
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