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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 06:47:58PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:38:31AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > My fault... I was tracking the fix and lost track of the thread.
> > 
> > The problem is that the fix is necessary but not sufficient, as it
> > introduces an undesirable host-guest dependency.  In order to allow
> > neerw guests to work on older hosts we also should use the
> > {rd,wr}msr_safe() functions to manipulate this MSR, with a comment
> > as to why.
> > 
> > Boris, could you prepare such a patch, please?
> 
> I don't think Boris O. is at AMD anymore. Want me to add that to my fix
> for kvm or prep a separate patch?

CC-ing Boris.
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
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