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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, amd: rename vmmu support capability
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:28:51 +0200
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On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 15:38 +0200, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yep, NAK on this one.

Ok, we could at least add a comment when defining X86_FEATURE_NPT.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

> 
> Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:02:55PM +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> >> From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
> >> 
> >> AMD has renamed nested page table technology to rapid virtualization
> >indexing,
> >> reflect this change in the kernel.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
> >
> >You know that /proc/cpuinfo is a userspace ABI, right?
> >
> >And are you sure nothing is using that string -
> >"npt" - since it got added almost three years ago by
> >414bb144efa2d2fe16d104d836d0d6b6e9265788?
> >
> >-- 
> >Regards/Gruss,
> >    Boris.
>