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-rw-r--r--arch/i386/boot/memory.c9
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