Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:02:52 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] SMP alternatives |
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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?
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