Re: [Qemu-devel] 'monitor' and 'mwait' instruction

[Joachim Henke]

Ok, I forgot about external kernel modules or patches, as I don't use  
any. But in plain Linux 2.6.17 mwait is only used in the function  
mwait_idle()

R. Armiento wrote:
> But I just don't see how you can postulate that mwait is not used  
> anywhere else in the Linux kernel? There are many kernel modules;  
> some being closed source. And if an mwait lurks somewhere in your  
> kernel, you might get a really obscure breakage that will be a pain  
> to debug...

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