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/** @file
  AsmMonitor function

  Copyright (c) 2006 - 2008, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>
  This program and the accompanying materials
  are licensed and made available under the terms and conditions of the BSD License
  which accompanies this distribution.  The full text of the license may be found at
  http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php.

  THE PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED UNDER THE BSD LICENSE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

**/

/**
  Sets up a monitor buffer that is used by AsmMwait().

  Executes a MONITOR instruction with the register state specified by Eax, Ecx
  and Edx. Returns Eax. This function is only available on IA-32 and x64.

  @param  RegisterEax The value to load into EAX or RAX before executing the MONITOR
                      instruction.
  @param  RegisterEcx The value to load into ECX or RCX before executing the MONITOR
                      instruction.
  @param  RegisterEdx The value to load into EDX or RDX before executing the MONITOR
                      instruction.

  @return RegisterEax

**/
UINTN
EFIAPI
AsmMonitor (
  IN      UINTN                     RegisterEax,
  IN      UINTN                     RegisterEcx,
  IN      UINTN                     RegisterEdx
  )
{
  _asm {
    mov     eax, RegisterEax
    mov     ecx, RegisterEcx
    mov     edx, RegisterEdx
    _emit   0x0f             // monitor
    _emit   0x01
    _emit   0xc8
  }
}