Re: [PATCH] rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on_cpu

On Friday 19 January 2007 10:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> It would, but rather than having the paravirtualization interfaces
> duplicate out of control, we could/should implement the less generic
> features in terms of the more generic, above the pvz layer.

I can't see any Hypervisors ever allowing those weird MSRs, so
for paravirtualization it is probably better to just disable then.

-Andi
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