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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AMD OSVW (OS Visible Workaround) for Xen
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 19:05:45 +0100
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On 01/07/2010 20:17, "Wei Huang" <wei.huang2@amd.com> wrote:

> This path enables AMD OSVW (OS Visible Workaround) feature for Xen. New
> AMD errata will have a OSVW id assigned in the future. OS is supposed to
> check OSVW status MSR to find out whether CPU has a specific erratum.
> Legacy errata are also supported in this patch: traditional
> family/model/stepping approach will be used if OSVW feature isn't
> applicable.  This patch is adapted from Hans Rosenfeld's patch submitted
> to Linux kernel .

Applied to xen-unstable. Is this for 4.0.1 also? It is a big patch and it
doesn't say it actually fixes any issues...

 -- Keir

> Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Rosenfeld <hands.rosenfeld@amd.com>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>