Re: [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/27/2013 03:40 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> But I'd guess that depends on the uarch because Bulldozer, reportedly,
> implements MFENCE by causing a pipeline stall which controls the
> prefetches too:
> 

An implementation can always make the memory model stronger, but not weaker.

	-hpa


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