From: Kanna Scarlet <[email protected]>
To: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
Cc: David Laight <[email protected]>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Change mov $0, %reg with xor %reg, %reg
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:45:45 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On 8/5/22 4:42 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 09:26:02AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>> Use "xor %rax,%rax" instead of "xor %eax,%eax" to save
>> the 'reg' prefix.
>
> Also, some places explicitly use the mov variant to zero a register
> without touching rflags. Please be careful to not change those.
thank you for reminder, i will check again to make myself more sure
the patch doesn't break this %rflags dependency situation
Regards,
--
Kanna Scarlet
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-08 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-04 15:26 [PATCH 0/1] x86 change mov 0, %reg to xor %reg, %reg Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 1/1] x86: Change mov $0, %reg with " Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-04 15:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-04 18:08 ` Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-05 9:26 ` David Laight
2022-08-05 9:42 ` Joerg Roedel
2022-08-08 16:45 ` Kanna Scarlet [this message]
2022-08-08 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-08-08 16:38 ` Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-08 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-08-09 7:38 ` David Laight
2022-08-05 9:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-08 16:57 ` Kanna Scarlet
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