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    Remove "noreplacement" kernel command line option. · 72538d85
    Linus Torvalds authored
    It is no longer valid to not replace instructions, since we depend on
    different behaviour depending on CPU capabilities.
    
    If you need to limit the capabilities of the replacements (because the
    boot CPU has features that non-boot CPU's do not have, for example), you
    need to explicitly disable those capabilities that are not shared across
    all CPU's.
    
    For example, if your boot CPU has FXSR, but other CPU's in your system
    do not, you need to use the "nofxsr" kernel command line, not disable
    instruction replacement per se.
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