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On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 03:24:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But talking to the hw people about this is certainly a good idea regardless.

I'm not seeing it in this thread but I might've missed it too. Anyway,
I'm being reminded that the ADD will change rFLAGS while MFENCE doesn't
touch them.

Do we care?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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