Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752285Ab0BAQpu (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:45:50 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54702 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751016Ab0BAQps (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:45:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4B6703EF.9050306@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:40:15 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: mingo@elte.hu, jeremy@goop.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86: enlightenment for ticket spinlocks References: <4B65C5BE02000078000584B5@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4B65CF5B.3000804@zytor.com> <4B669742020000780002CEEB@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4B669742020000780002CEEB@vpn.id2.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 22 On 01/31/2010 11:56 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> It's probably a bug that's now cast in stone. That happends. I just >> had to be picky. (And yes, it's ebx-edx-ecx; see my second email.) > > The "good" thing is that this is not on leaf 0, but on leaf 0x4000??00, > i.e. "normal" code would never display this garbled string. > Well, yes, but the format of ID leaves is the same between groups. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/