[PATCH] x86: adjust monitor/mwait templates

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 14:12:00 GMT 2018


On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 6:35 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> Architecturally, MONITOR's and MONITORX'es memory operand is a 16- or
> 32-bit register outside of 64-bit mode, and a 64- or 32-bit register
> inside 64-bit mode. The other register operands, including all of them
> for MWAIT and MWAITX, are uniformly 32-bit, irrespective of mode. Retain
> the original 64-bit MONITOR{,X} templates for compatibility only, and
> fold the MWAIT{,X} ones.
>
> opcodes/
> 2018-07-10  Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
>         * i386-gen.c (monitor, monitorx): Add 64-bit template requiring
>         32-bit registers as operands 2 and 3. Improve comments.
>         (mwait, mwaitx): Fold templates. Improve comments.
>         OPERAND_TYPE_INOUTPORTREG.
>         * i386-tbl.h: Re-generate.
>

OK.

Thanks.



-- 
H.J.



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