__mfmsr

Purpose

Move from Machine State Register

Moves the contents of the machine state register (MSR) into bits 32 to 63 of the designated general-purpose register.

Prototype

unsigned long __mfmsr (void);

Usage

Execution of this instruction is privileged and restricted to the supervisor mode only.

Parent topic: Move to/from register functions


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