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Subject: Re: [PART1 V5 07/13] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support
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On 10/05/2016 18:24, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Sure but how can one even read that?
> 
> AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_HOST_PHYSICAL_ID_MASK
> 
> AVIC's physical ID entry's host's physical ID's mask?
> 
> That sucks in any language :-)

If you read it backwards, that's the

        Mask
      for the host physical id
    in entries of
  the physical ID table
(an AVIC thing).

Quite a mouthful, can't deny that.  But I'm sure Germans would
appreciate it.

Paolo "Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz"