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Do not use GCC's "A" constraint to load EAX:EDX in wrmsr_safe(). Per
GCC's documenation on x86-specific constraints, "A" will not actually
load a 64-bit value into EAX:EDX on x86-64.
The a and d registers. This class is used for instructions that return
double word results in the ax:dx register pair. Single word values will
be allocated either in ax or dx. For example on i386 the following
implements rdtsc:
unsigned long long rdtsc (void)
{
unsigned long long tick;
__asm__ __volatile__("rdtsc":"=A"(tick));
return tick;
}
This is not correct on x86-64 as it would allocate tick in either ax or
dx. You have to use the following variant instead:
unsigned long long rdtsc (void)
{
unsigned int tickl, tickh;
__asm__ __volatile__("rdtsc":"=a"(tickl),"=d"(tickh));
return ((unsigned long long)tickh << 32)|tickl;
}
Because a u64 fits in a single 64-bit register, using "A" for selftests,
which are 64-bit only, results in GCC loading the value into either RAX
or RDX instead of splitting it across EAX:EDX.
E.g.:
kvm_exit: reason MSR_WRITE rip 0x402919 info 0 0
kvm_msr: msr_write 40000118 = 0x60000000001 (#GP)
...
With "A":
48 8b 43 08 mov 0x8(%rbx),%rax
49 b9 ba da ca ba 0a movabs $0xabacadaba,%r9
00 00 00
4c 8d 15 07 00 00 00 lea 0x7(%rip),%r10 # 402f44 <guest_msr+0x34>
4c 8d 1d 06 00 00 00 lea 0x6(%rip),%r11 # 402f4a <guest_msr+0x3a>
0f 30 wrmsr
With "a"/"d":
48 8b 53 08 mov 0x8(%rbx),%rdx
89 d0 mov %edx,%eax
48 c1 ea 20 shr $0x20,%rdx
49 b9 ba da ca ba 0a movabs $0xabacadaba,%r9
00 00 00
4c 8d 15 07 00 00 00 lea 0x7(%rip),%r10 # 402fc3 <guest_msr+0xb3>
4c 8d 1d 06 00 00 00 lea 0x6(%rip),%r11 # 402fc9 <guest_msr+0xb9>
0f 30 wrmsr
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| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
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| security | ||
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| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
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| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
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| MAINTAINERS | ||
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| README | ||
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.