On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:15:33AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 12:49:48PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 10:43:48PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > > +static inline void movdir64b(void *dst, const void *src)
> > > > +{
> > > > + /* movdir64b [rdx], rax */
> > > > + asm volatile(".byte 0x66, 0x0f, 0x38, 0xf8, 0x02"
> > > > + : "=m" (*(char *)dst)
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > > + : "d" (src), "a" (dst));
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > Probably needs fake 64-byte type, so that compiler knows what is dirty.
> >
> > Would that be something like this?
> >
> > static inline void movdir64b(void *dst, const void *src)
> > {
> > struct dstbytes {
> > char pad[64];
> > };
> >
> > /* movdir64b [rdx], rax */
> > asm volatile(".byte 0x66, 0x0f, 0x38, 0xf8, 0x02"
> > : "=m" (*(struct dstbytes *)dst)
> > : "d" (src), "a" (dst));
> > }
>
> Can the source and destination overlap? The SDM doesn't seem to mention
> this.
Good question. I'll ask to clarify this.
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Kirill A. Shutemov
