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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [RFC PATCH 12/17] PowerPC: booke64: Add DO_KVM
 kernel hooks
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:28:00 +1000
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On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 00:25 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Or just free up another register early on, like here.

If you're going to do that, you want to measure the impact on null
syscall performance though.

Cheers,
Ben.