Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] x86/setcpuid: Add kernel option setcpuid

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Feb 04 2019 - 14:57:17 EST


On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 11:05:52AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> But, we're not being very persuasive because we kinda forgot about the
> "if and only if" condition that you mentioned.

But why does it have to be a cmdline parameter instead of
being an automatic thing which sets the proper bits in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c based on f/m/s or MSR or whatever ?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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