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Reputation: 1699

Model-specific registers in go?

I'm learning how to write assembly with Go, and I'm not very familiar with assembly. I'm trying to understand how to read from a model-specific register, and I'm running into errors.

// main.go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func readmsr(register int64) int64

func main() {
    fmt.Println(readmsr(0xC0000080))
}

// intrinsics_amd64.s
// readmsr(register int64) int64
TEXT ·readmsr(SB), $0-24
    RDMSR register+0(FP), AX
    MOVQ AX, ret+16(FP)
    RET

When I try to compile the code, I get these errors:

go build -v .
_/gopath/go/workspace/temp
# _/gopath/go/workspace/temp
asm: invalid instruction: 00000 (/gopath/go/workspace/temp/instrinsics_amd64.s:3)   RDMSR   register+8(FP), AX
asm: assembly failed

Looking the op codes in the x86asm package, it looks like RDMSR is a supported instruction, at least from what I can tell.

I am not very familiar with assembly, so I'm unsure if what I am doing wrong is wrong in assembly or wrong in Go. Can you please help me understand what I'm doing wrong and why it's wrong?

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