From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:14:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4890A16D.1000201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730170833.GD11223@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Suresh Siddha wrote:
>> It somewhat concerns me, because one of the conflicts is generated by
>> collision with x2apic. The rest of them I don't think are too problematic.
>
> hpa, confilicts with x2apic branch are very small and related to cpuid bits.
>
> commit 04df16d2465cbb59b84c9c57ad865dbbeebadad8
> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
> Date: Tue Jul 29 10:29:18 2008 -0700
>
> x86, xsave: xsave cpuid feature bits
>
> Add xsave CPU feature bits.
>
> and
>
> commit 32e1d0a0651004f5fe47f85a2a5c725ad579a90c
> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
> Date: Thu Jul 10 11:16:50 2008 -0700
>
> x64, x2apic/intr-remap: cpuid bits for x2apic feature
>
> cpuid feature for x2apic.
>
> Both of these patches are straight forward, simple and can be moved
> to x86/core(?) now, if that helps.
This is true. Cherry-picking those to the x86/core branch is probably
the easiest, even if that means they're duplicated in the x2apic branch
(I presume we don't want to rebase x2apic).
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 17:29 [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 1/9] x86, xsave: xsave cpuid feature bits Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 2/9] x86, xsave: enable xsave/xrstor on cpus with xsave support Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 3/9] x86, xsave: context switch support using xsave/xrstor Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 4/9] x86, xsave: dynamically allocate sigframes fpstate instead of static allocation Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 5/9] x86, xsave: reorganization of signal save/restore fpstate code layout Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 6/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor specific routines Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 7/9] x86, xsave: struct _fpstate extensions to include extended state information Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 8/9] x86, xsave: save/restore the extended state context in sigframe Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 9/9] x86, xsave: update xsave header bits during ptrace fpregs set Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 23:09 ` [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-29 23:29 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 23:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-30 10:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-30 16:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-30 17:08 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-30 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-07-30 18:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-30 21:46 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-30 23:41 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-31 21:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-31 21:58 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-31 22:14 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-31 22:19 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-31 22:36 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-31 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-31 22:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-01 2:06 ` Rene Herman
2008-08-01 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-01 14:27 ` Rene Herman
2008-08-01 14:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-01 15:19 ` Rene Herman
2008-08-01 15:44 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-01 16:03 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-31 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-31 22:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-13 11:00 ` Ingo Molnar
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