[PATCH v5 28/32] x86/mm, kexec: Allow kexec to be used with SME

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Fri May 19 13:58:36 PDT 2017


On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 03:45:28PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Actually there is.  The above will result in data in the cache because
> halt() turns into a function call if CONFIG_PARAVIRT is defined (refer
> to the comment above where do_wbinvd_halt is set to true). I could make
> this a native_wbinvd() and native_halt()

That's why we have the native_* versions - to bypass paravirt crap.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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