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Re: [Xen-merge] fs/gs handling



Hi Chris,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:41:45PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> Any reason that fs/gs are specifically handled with mov not movl in
> these cases?
> 
>  #define deactivate_mm(tsk, mm) \
> -     asm("movl %0,%%fs ; movl %0,%%gs": :"r" (0))
> +     asm("mov %0,%%fs ; mov %0,%%gs": :"r" (0))

mov works for both x86 and x86-64 ...
... though I don't know whether that's relevant here.

Best,
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Kurt Garloff                   <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>             [Koeln, DE]
Physics:Plasma modeling <garloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [TU Eindhoven, NL]
Linux: SUSE Labs (Director)    <garloff@xxxxxxx>            [Novell Inc]

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