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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/8] x86, cleanups: Simplify sync_core() in the case of no CPUID
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:24:26PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Thinking about it some more, there is another reason to not do
> this, which is that we don't want this particular CPUID to be
> paravirtualized; we're after the synchronizing side effect, not the
> CPUID return value itself.

Ok, you're right, this can be a PVOP call.

> So let's leave it as a primitive; it gets too confusing otherwise.

Ok.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.


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