From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751717AbbH1FSX (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:18:23 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com ([209.85.212.171]:36231 "EHLO mail-wi0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750733AbbH1FSW (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:18:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:18:19 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Dave Hansen Cc: mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, bp@alien8.de, fenghua.yu@intel.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks Message-ID: <20150828051819.GG25556@gmail.com> References: <20150827171102.1BDF27E5@viggo.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150827171102.1BDF27E5@viggo.jf.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Dave Hansen wrote: > > Changes in v2: > * remove references to Processor Trace XSAVE state > (will defer to another patch set) > * Remove some cruft from last patch > * move last_good_offset fix in to the patch that > introduced it > > > These patches make some updates to the x86 XSAVE code. > > There are basically 5 things going on here: > * removal of the LWP (lightweight profiling) code > * naming and type cleanups > * removal of xfeatures_nr variable > * addition of AVX-512 C structures > * new sanity checks of XSAVE buffer sizing > > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: Borislav Petkov > Cc: Fenghua Yu > Cc: Tim Chen > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org So conceptually I like this series, modulo the handful of small suggestions I made in my review. (The extra patch suggestions I made could be added later on in a separate series.) Thanks, Ingo