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The following instruction pattern is used to access a global variable. mov $0x231c0, %rax movsql %edi, %rcx mov -0x7dc94ae0(,%rcx,8), %rcx cmpl $0x0, 0xa60(%rcx,%rax,1) <<<--- here The first instruction set the address of the per-cpu variable (here, it is 'runqueues' of type 'struct rq'). The second instruction seems like a cpu number of the per-cpu base. The third instruction get the base offset of per-cpu area for that cpu. The last instruction compares the value of the per-cpu variable at the offset of 0xa60. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502060011.1838090-5-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.