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The immediate form of MSR access instructions are primarily motivated by performance, not code size: by having the MSR number in an immediate, it is available *much* earlier in the pipeline, which allows the hardware much more leeway about how a particular MSR is handled. Use a scattered CPU feature bit for MSR immediate form instructions. Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250805202224.1475590-2-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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