* Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

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Or is there some reason you wanted the odd flags version? If so, that
should be documented.

What do you mean "odd"?

It's odd because it makes no sense for non-pcid (christ, I wish Intel had just 
called it "asid" instead, "pcid" always makes me react to "pci"), and I think it 
would make more sense to pair up the pcid case with the invpcid rather than have 
those preemption rules here.

The naming is really painful, so a trivial suggestion: could we just name all the 
Linux side bits 'asid' or 'ctx_id' (even in x86 arch code) and only use 'PCID' 
nomenclature in the very lowest level code?

I.e. rename pcid_live_cpus et al and most functions to the asid or ctx_id or asid 
naming scheme or so. That would hide most of the naming ugliness.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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