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| author | Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> | 2015-02-12 20:06:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2015-02-18 21:01:59 +0100 |
| commit | cbb53b9623a70f012e1fdfb6fc0af6878df4762b (patch) | |
| tree | c7cdaefe10cb242f20ee4c02da6bc36188740ca8 /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | 8a764a875fe3cf3a83296bacd00bfc41917e95e2 (diff) | |
x86/asm/decoder: Explain CALLW discrepancy between Intel and AMD
In 64-bit mode, AMD and Intel CPUs treat 0x66 prefix before
branch insns differently. For near branches, it affects decode
too since immediate offset's width is different.
See these empirical tests:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139714939728946&w=2
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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