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DateWed, 23 Nov 2005 10:02:52 -0800
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [patch] SMP alternatives
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> What I suggested to Intel at the Developer Days is to have a MSR (or,
> better yet, a bit in the page table pointer %cr0) that disables "lock" in
> _user_ space. Ie a lock would be a no-op when in CPL3, and only with
> certain processes.

You mean %cr3, right?

-hpa
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