Lai,

Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:23 PM Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> +SYM_CODE_START(irq_entries_start)
>> +    vector=FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR
>> +    .rept (FIRST_SYSTEM_VECTOR - FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR)
>> +       UNWIND_HINT_IRET_REGS
>> +       .byte   0x6a, vector
>> +       jmp     common_interrupt
>> +       .align  8
>> +    vector=vector+1
>> +    .endr
>> +SYM_CODE_END(irq_entries_start)
>
> Using ".byte   0x6a, vector" is somewhat ugly.
>
> I hope it should be " pushq $(s8_to_s64(vector))", which can also
> help to reduce bunches of comments about ".byte   0x6a, vector".
>
> However, I don't know how to implement s8_to_s64() here.

Neither do I.

> But at least the following code works (generates the same two-byte
> machine code as ".byte 0x6a, vector" does):
>
>         .if vector < 128
>         pushq $(vector)
>         .else
>         pushq $(0xffffffffffffff00+vector)
>         .endif

Only slightly less ugly and needs as much commentry as the above.

Thanks,

        tglx

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