linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] x86: remove paravirt

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Message-ID: <20160408011443.GO1990@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 8 Apr 2016 03:14:43 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] x86: remove paravirt_enabled

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 05:06:20PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Now that Andy's ASM paravirt_enabled() use is merged 

Sorry I should have provided more context, I meant that now
that Andy's ASM paravirt_enabled() removal is merged:

This is the ASM hack that Andy removed:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=x86/fsgsbase&id=58a5aac5331388a175a42b6ed2154f0559cefb21

This puts a nail on coffin for the ASM hack:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=x86/fsgsbase&id=0dd0036f6e07f741a1356b424b84a3164b6e59cf

  Luis