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Commit 132ec92f authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, msr: Add rd/wrmsr interfaces with preset registers



native_{rdmsr,wrmsr}_safe_regs are two new interfaces which allow
presetting of a subset of eight x86 GPRs before executing the rd/wrmsr
instructions. This is needed at least on AMD K8 for accessing an erratum
workaround MSR.

Originally based on an idea by H. Peter Anvin.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251705011-18636-1-git-send-email-petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 366d19e1
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