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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 10:38:22AM -0700, Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan wrote:
> Yes. As per ABI, I don't need to clear it. It will not be used by VMM.
> But since that register content is shared with VMM, I tried to keep the
> unused register values to '0' (consistent with other hypercall use cases).
> 
> I am fine with removing it if you think it is unnecessary.

Yeah, you probably wanna clear it after all, just in case, as Dirk says.

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