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From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpu: intel, amd: mask cleared cpuid features
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On 07/25/2012 02:58 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On 07/25/2012 12:31 PM, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
>> On 07/24/2012 04:44 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> This approach does not need any kernel support (except for the
>>>> /proc/cpuinfo filtering). Does this address the issues you have?
>>> You can do the /proc/cpuinfo filtering in user space too
>>>
>> How?
> I wanted to write the same reply yesterday, but followed the hint in
> Alan's previous mail:
> # mount --bind /dev/shm/faked_cpuinfo /somepath/proc/cpuinfo
>
> I checked it, it works even with chroots and is not visible from within.

If CPUs go online/offline?

>
> Regards,
> Andre.
>