> Nack. This is used for paravirt-ops kernels that use IOPL'd userspace.
> Fixing it would require a fairly heavy penalty on the iret path, since
> every single instruction there contributes to a critical region which
> must have custom fixup code, or some other technique to provide
> protection against interrupt re-entrancy.
>
> At least, let's discuss other potential solutions first - for now it is
> harmless.
Ok I will drop the patch again
-Andi
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