Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2021 15:44:46 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cpu for v5.16 |
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On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 3:29 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote: > > - Start checking a CPUID bit on AMD Zen3 which states that the CPU > clears the segment base when a null selector is written. Do the explicit > detection on older CPUs, zen2 and hygon specifically, which have the > functionality but do not advertize the CPUID bit. Factor in the presence > of a hypervisor underneath the kernel and avoid doing the explicit check > there which the HV might've decided to not advertize for migration > safety reasons, a.o.
"a.o."? Is that a common German shorthand, possibly anglicized?
I'm assuming - and rewrote it - that it stands for "or similar".
Possibly "among other" aka "inter alia"? Very occasionally shortened "i.a.", although "e.g." is the _much_ more common form of much the same thing.
Never seen that "a.o." thing.
Linus
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