On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:01:19AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> I'm not following: If the AMD variants (putting a special value into > >> %edi) can be freely replaced by the non-AMD variants, why did > >> the AMD special ones get used in the first place? > > > Older CPUs (K8) needed the AMD variants, starting with family 10h we > > can use the normal versions. > > So no, not correct.
I don't see what the problem is: the amd* variants shouldn't have been used at all in the first place. Fullstop. The patch should've been doing *msrl_safe from the get-go. Regardless of family. So what's the issue? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
