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From: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] KVM: x86: Add IBPB support
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:36:24 +0100
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        <x86@kernel.org>, Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
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        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
        Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>,
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        "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
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        KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
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