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In AT&T asm syntax, most of x86 instructions can have size suffix like b, w, l or q. Instead of adding all these instructions in the table, we can handle them in a general way. For example, it can try to find an instruction as is. If not found, assuming it has a suffix and it'd try again without the suffix if it's one of the allowed suffixes. This way, we can reduce the instruction table size for duplicated entries of the same instructions with a different suffix. If an instruction xyz and others like xyz<suffix> are completely different ones, then they both need to be listed in the table so that they can be found before the second attempt (without the suffix). Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.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/20230524205054.3087004-1-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
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text 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.