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Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace

From	Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace
Date	2015-08-04 03:20 +0200
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On 2015/08/03 20:03, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:08:07AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> For those of us suffering OCDs and all, its a good change though. The
>> alfabet song does go: A, B, C, D etc.. after all. Not: A, C, D, B ...
> 
> ... except that x86 encoding orders regs like it was originally: AX,
> CX, DX, BX, ... Don't ask me why - looks like someone thought that the
> C (count) and D (double precision - AX extension) registers were more
> important than B (base).
> 
> Or someone was simply illiterate.
> 

I thought this was typo. If it is intentional, I'll keep it intact.

Thanks,
Takao Indoh

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[PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-08-03 10:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-03 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-08-03 11:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-03 11:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-08-04 03:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-08-03 13:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-08-04 03:20 +0200

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