Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/boot: Drop all use of lmsw

2019-08-27 Thread Jan Beulich
On 19.08.2019 15:42, Andrew Cooper wrote: lmsw is an obsolete relic of the 286 processor - so much so that it even lacks intercept assistance on AMD processors. Use a plain mov to %cr0 which is easier to follow, certainly faster to virtualise on AMD hardware, and almost certainly a faster

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/boot: Drop all use of lmsw

2019-08-19 Thread Andrew Cooper
lmsw is an obsolete relic of the 286 processor - so much so that it even lacks intercept assistance on AMD processors. Use a plain mov to %cr0 which is easier to follow, certainly faster to virtualise on AMD hardware, and almost certainly a faster microcode path in real hardware. Signed-off-by: