Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 15/28] x86: detect 5-level paging support

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Dec 15 2016 - 17:16:57 EST

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The code is not calling CPUID in any performance critical path, only
at initialization. So any discussion about saving a few instructions
is a complete waste of time.

-Andi

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