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Aside from being excessively slow, CPUID is problematic: Linux runs on a handful of CPUs that don't have CPUID. Use IRET-to-self instead. IRET-to-self works everywhere, so it makes testing easy. For reference, On my laptop, IRET-to-self is ~110ns, CPUID(eax=1, ecx=0) is ~83ns on native and very very slow under KVM, and MOV-to-CR2 is ~42ns. While we're at it: sync_core() serves a very specific purpose. Document it. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: xen-devel <Xen-devel@lists.xen.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c79f0225f68bc8c40335612bf624511abb78941.1481307769.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.