Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] x86/xen: Add a Xen-specific sync_core() implementation

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:24:09AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The optimize-nops thing needs it too, I think.

Ah, it is called only from apply_alternatives() but sure, it is safer
this way. Lemme do that and run it through the boxes to see whether
anything catches fire.

> Again, this will never matter in practice (even if somebody has a i486
> s till, the prefetch window size is like 16 bytes or something), but
> from a documentation standpoint it's good.

Right.

Thanks.

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