On 07/10/2012 07:44 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 11.07.2012, at 02:34, Scott Wood wrote:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_BOOKE
>> +    /*
>> +     * We're not changing address space on Book E, and the extra rfi
>> +     * can hurt when virtualized without hardware support -- whereas
>> +     * mtmsr can be paravirtualized.
> 
> We can always paravirtualize RFI as well if it makes sense.

I'm not sure that's possible.  We thought about it a while back, but
IIRC the difficulty was not leaving a register clobbered.

-Scott

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