On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 02:33:46PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 02:19:58PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> Create an inline function for clflush(), with the proper arguments,
> >> and use it instead of hard-coding the instruction.
> >>
> >> This also removes one instance of hard-coded wbinvd, based on a patch
> >> by Bauder de Oliveira Costa.
> > 
> > I don't see much sense in it. CLFLUSH is not priviledged, paravirt
> > doesn't need to change and this adds just an unnecessary layer of 
> > abstraction.
> 
> The main reason is that everyone seems to invoke it either incorrectly

Where is it incorrect? 

-Andi
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