linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] x86/cpu, kvm: Move the LFENCE_RDTSC / LFENCE always serializing feature

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Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:22:50 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc:     Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@....com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] x86/cpu, kvm: Move the LFENCE_RDTSC / LFENCE
 always serializing feature

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 01:15:29PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> I don't think so.
> 
> I'd be surprised if we don't have a _few_ other cases like this around,
> but nothing is coming to mind.  Either way, it doesn't seem problematic.

Yeah, probably. The cases I remember are the other way around - we map
vendor-specific flags to synthetic ones...

Anyway, thanks for checking!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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