Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757928AbZDQAKg (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:10:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755611AbZDQAKZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:10:25 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:37602 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755391AbZDQAKY (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:10:24 -0400 Message-ID: <49E7C87E.8000202@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:08:30 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Keniston CC: Masami Hiramatsu , Ingo Molnar , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Andi Kleen , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt , Frederic Weisbecker , Andrew Morton , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , systemtap-ml , LKML , Vegard Nossum , Avi Kivity , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 3/6 V4.1] x86: instruction decorder API References: <49D4F4E6.6060401@redhat.com> <49D69BCA.8060506@redhat.com> <49D69F39.4010101@zytor.com> <49D6ABD1.7040704@redhat.com> <1239058135.5212.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <49DA8857.8030607@zytor.com> <49E7BFDC.8040305@redhat.com> <1239926776.5883.17.camel@dyn9047018094.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1239926776.5883.17.camel@dyn9047018094.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 18 Jim Keniston wrote: > > It looks like AT2(Ev,Gv) would yield the same bits as AT2(Gv,Ev). It'd > be nice not to lose the operand-order information. And we'd have to > make clear whether which notation we're using -- src,dest as in the gnu > assembler, or dest,src as in the AMD (and Intel?) manuals. > Since the information would come from the manuals, I would recommend following them (dst first.) -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/