Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86: enlightenment for ticket spinlocks

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Feb 01 2010 - 11:45:53 EST


On 01/31/2010 11:56 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>
>> It's probably a bug that's now cast in stone. That happends. I just
>> had to be picky. (And yes, it's ebx-edx-ecx; see my second email.)
>
> The "good" thing is that this is not on leaf 0, but on leaf 0x4000??00,
> i.e. "normal" code would never display this garbled string.
>

Well, yes, but the format of ID leaves is the same between groups.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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