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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:17:57 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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On 07/20/2013 05:25 AM, George Spelvin wrote:
> It's marginal with only two call sites, but would it be worth factoring
> out the write-back function?  Something like this (untested) patch.
> It definitely makes the generated assembly cleaner.
> 
> (Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> if you want it.)

Two call sites, statistically "never" executed, really doesn't justify
adding a new assembly function.  I was considering making a C wrapper,
though... I would also like to change these to using rdmsrl/wrmsrl.

	-hpa


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