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> The last part of asm block lists the "clobbered" registers which was
> changed by CPUID and we need to tell GCC to restore them
> automatically - so no push/pop needed around.

Yup.  Specifically, gcc knows to save and restore them *somehow* *if*
it needs to.  It may not need to save them, it may choose to copy them
to another register.

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