Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86, head_32: Remove second CPUID detection fromdefault_entry

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/11/2013 09:15 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 07:49:14AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > What about CPUs with inconsistent cpuid levels? Yes, they can and do
> > happen, as we discussed on IRC.
>
> Yes, this should still work. We're doing the EFLAGS.ID dance right at
> the beginning of default_entry on each cpu and cache cpuld level in
> new_cpu_data for the time we're in this code.
>
> What this particular patch removes is the yet-another EFLAGS.ID dance
> which we IMHO unnecessarily did after enabling paging.
>
> So basically nothing changes wrt handling inconsistent cpuid levels and
> MSR mis-programming - we still should be taking care of those cases.

Cool.  I misread your 0/4 cover and hadn't quite dug into the details yet.

	-hpa


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