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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] i386 syscall opcode reordering (pipelining)
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:11 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > is anybody actually EVER using those???
> > I would think not....
> 
> Probably not.  The _syscallN() macros are broken for the general case
> on any 32-bit architecture, since they can't handle multiregister
> arguments.

In the -mm tree they're no longer visible outside ifdef __KERNEL__.

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dwmw2