nickdesaulniers added a comment.

In D137317#3905654 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D137317#3905654>, @craig.topper 
wrote:

> In D137317#3905643 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D137317#3905643>, 
> @nickdesaulniers wrote:
>
>> Seems fine, though looking at `llvm::X86::CPUKind`, why do you choose 
>> `llvm::X86::CK_PentiumPro` as the lower bounds? Surely 
>> `llvm::X86::CK_Pentium2` doesn't support CET?
>>
>> Does the backend already have an equivalent CPU target check that could be 
>> reused by clang?
>
> My understanding was that the CET encodings reuse some encodings that have 
> been equivalent to multibyte NOPs since PentiumPro. I think the intent was 
> that a CET mitigated binary would still run on a CPU that didn't support CET.

Makes sense; consider adding that additional information as context to the 
commit message @pengfei .


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