Messages in this thread | | | From | Len Brown <> | Date | Mon, 24 May 2021 14:21:05 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 21/28] x86/fpu/amx: Initialize child's AMX state |
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On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 2:14 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> What does VOLATILE mean in this context?
Volatile means caller-saved.
Volatile registers can not be used for globals, static, or for parameter passing.
ie. By the time the callee is running, they must be assumed to be invalid.
This means that any routine, including the target of a system call, such as fork/clone, can't assume that any data exists in these registers.
-- Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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