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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/boot/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/boot/memory.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c index bccaa1cf664..378353956b5 100644 --- a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c +++ b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c @@ -28,11 +28,14 @@ static int detect_memory_e820(void) do { size = sizeof(struct e820entry); - id = SMAP; + + /* Important: %edx is clobbered by some BIOSes, + so it must be either used for the error output + or explicitly marked clobbered. */ asm("int $0x15; setc %0" - : "=am" (err), "+b" (next), "+d" (id), "+c" (size), + : "=d" (err), "+b" (next), "=a" (id), "+c" (size), "=m" (*desc) - : "D" (desc), "a" (0xe820)); + : "D" (desc), "d" (SMAP), "a" (0xe820)); /* Some BIOSes stop returning SMAP in the middle of the search loop. We don't know exactly how the BIOS |