Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cpu for v5.16

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 3:29 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> 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