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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen/x86: Introduce a new VMASSIST for
 architectural behaviour of iopl
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:45:32 +0000
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