linux-kernel - Re: [PART1 V5 07/13] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2016 19:06:18 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
	rkrcmar@...hat.com, joro@...tes.org, gleb@...nel.org,
	alex.williamson@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wei@...hat.com,
	sherry.hurwitz@....com
Subject: Re: [PART1 V5 07/13] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 07:00:43PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> If you read it backwards, that's the
> 
>         Mask
>       for the host physical id
>     in entries of
>   the physical ID table
> (an AVIC thing).

Note to self: defines in arch/x86/kvm/ should be read backwards.

> Quite a mouthful, can't deny that.  But I'm sure Germans would
> appreciate it.

<Insert joke here!>

Oh boy, I have a gazillion of those... will tell ya live! :-)

> Paolo "Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz"

I think that one is not in effect anymore :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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