On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:52:12PM +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote:

> +/*
> + * Hypercalls for KVM.
> + *
> + * Hypercall number is passed in v0.
> + * Return value will be placed in v0.
> + * Up to 3 arguments are passed in a0, a1, and a2.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned long kvm_hypercall0(unsigned long num)
> +{
> +     register unsigned long n asm("v0");
> +     register unsigned long r asm("v0");

Btw, is it safe to put two variables in the same register?

The syscall wrappers that used to be in <asm/unistd.h> were occasionally
hitting problems which eventually forced me to stop forcing variables
into particular registers instead using a MOVE instruction to shove
each variable into the right place.

Of course they were being used from non-PIC and PIC code, kernel and userland
so GCC had a much better chance to do evil than in the hypercall wrapper
case - but it made me paranoid ...

  Ralf
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