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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] x86/vmware: Update platform detection code for VMCALL/VMMCALL hypercalls
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    On 8/18/19 9:20 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
    > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
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    >> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
    >>
    >> Vmware has historically used an "inl" instruction for this, but recent
    >> hardware versions support using VMCALL/VMMCALL instead, so use this method
    >> if supported at platform detection time. We explicitly need to code
    >> separate macro versions since the alternatives self-patching has not
    >> been performed at platform detection time.
    >>
    >> We also put tighter constraints on the assembly input parameters and update
    >> the SPDX license info.
    > Can you please split the license stuff into a separate patch? You know, one
    > patch one thing. It's documented for a reason.
    >
    > While at it could you please ask your legal folks whether that custom
    > license boilerplate can go away as well?

    Sure, I'll drop that from the series for now.

    Thanks,

    /Thomas


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