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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 16/32] x86/tdx: Handle MWAIT, MONITOR and WBINVD
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On 5/11/2021 8:37 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> O
> Why not just drop the patch if it continues to cause people to spend
> cycles on it and it addresses a problem that will never happen?

We want to at least get some kind of warning if there is really a 
mistake. Just dropping such an ability wouldn't seem right.

That's all that the patch does really.

-Andi