Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] x86/bugs: Decouple ALTERNATIVE usage from VERW macro definition

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 18 2025 - 05:34:53 EST


On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 07:33:12AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Brendan also brought this up in v4[*]. Unless there's a way to coerce ALTERNATIVE_2
> into working with multiple strings, the layer of indirection is needed so that KVM
> can emit __stringify() for the entire sequence.

Ah, yah, there was that.

Pls put a small comment above it so that we don't forget.

Thx.

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