Re: UMIP and clearcpuid=

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 08:37:36PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Perhaps just one print per task might be a good start? Something like
> so?
> 
> I don't think anything hits this hard enough to matter performance wise;
> but the wine stuff can hit them often enough that the dmesg spam is
> annoying, and there's really nothing much you can do about it.
> 
> This is somewhat similar to the split lock stuff, yeah, they're bad, but
> nobody is going to be fixing those games.
> 
> And UMIP really is useful; these are gnarly instructions you really
> don't want, so as along as it all runs it should be fine. I suppose I
> should go re-enable it on my own machine and actually spend some time on
> it if/when I find another game that flat out doesn't work with the
> emulation.

Yah, I guess... I don't play them games so meh, but sure, makes sense to me.
I guess we can have people test it and see whether it helps.. maybe...

Thx.

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