[PATCH] x86-64: Remove duplicated code for reading control registers

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:33:09AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
>
> > Tiny cleanup:
> >
> > In x86_64, the same functions for reading cr3 and writing cr{3,4} are
> > defined in tlbflush.h and system.h, whith just a name change.
> > The only difference is the clobbering of memory, which seems a safe, and
> > even needed change for the write_cr4. This patch removes the duplicate.
> > write_cr3() is moved to system.h for consistency.
>
> missing patch.....
>
thanks. Attached now

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Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Red Hat Inc.
"Free as in Freedom"

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/system.h b/include/asm-x86_64/system.h
index bd376bc..213b7fe 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/system.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/system.h
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@
 	return cr3;
 } 
 
+static inline void write_cr3(unsigned long val)
+{
+	asm volatile("movq %0,%%cr3" :: "r" (val) : "memory");
+}
+
 static inline unsigned long read_cr4(void)
 { 
 	unsigned long cr4;
@@ -98,7 +103,7 @@
 
 static inline void write_cr4(unsigned long val)
 { 
-	asm volatile("movq %0,%%cr4" :: "r" (val));
+	asm volatile("movq %0,%%cr4" :: "r" (val) : "memory");
 } 
 
 #define stts() write_cr0(8 | read_cr0())