Re: A question about prefetchw detection in "x86/asm: Cleanup prefetch primitives"

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 08:04:39PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> Hmm, while it's true for AMD, the Intel SDM claims otherwise.  It says
> prefetchw is only (really) supported with "Intel® Core™ M processor
> family; 5th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family, Intel Atom
> processor based on Silvermont microarchitecture" or later.  On the
> earlier Intel CPUs supporting LM, the prefetchw instruction is treated
> as NOP.

And this is a problem because?

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