Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:46:44 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: I386 cli |
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:08:43PM -0700, erich@uruk.org wrote:
> David Grothe <dave@gcom.com> wrote: > > > In 2.5.41every architecture except Intel 386 has a "#define cli > > <something>" in its asm-arch/system.h file. Is there supposed to be such a > > define in asm-i386/system.h? If not, where does the "official" definition > > of cli() live for Intel? Or what is the include file that one needs to > > pick it up? I can't find it. > > I'm sure there is no definition because "cli" is the native assembler > instruction on x86.
Wrong reason. Furthermore, cli(), meaning 'global interrupt disable, across all processors', is not doable with a single instruction anyway. It's not defined, because it should not be used - usually the usage of cli() means a bug.
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