linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86: enlightenment for ticket spinlocks

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Message-ID: <4B6703EF.9050306@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:40:15 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
CC:	mingo@...e.hu, jeremy@...p.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86: enlightenment for ticket spinlocks

On 01/31/2010 11:56 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>
>> It's probably a bug that's now cast in stone.  That happends.  I just
>> had to be picky.  (And yes, it's ebx-edx-ecx; see my second email.)
> 
> The "good" thing is that this is not on leaf 0, but on leaf 0x4000??00,
> i.e. "normal" code would never display this garbled string.
> 

Well, yes, but the format of ID leaves is the same between groups.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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