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> is it possible to change 'l' and 'h' to 'low' and 'high'?
> 'cause 'l' does look like '1' (one) number...

It would be fine for me for someone to implement safe_rdtscll() and get rid
of l and h everywhere. IMHO all the l and h accesses of MSRs are just harder
to read and error prone over the ll 64bit variants.

But I didn't want to add it just for this.

-Andi