Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] perf/x86/intel/lbr: use setup_clear_cpu_cap instead of clear_cpu_cap

Herbert Xu
2022-10-20T09:06:11Z

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:59:48AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> I really really don't like it when people are fixing the wrong thing.
>
> Why does the kernel need to get fixed when something else can't get its
> CPUID dependencies straight? I don't even want to know why something
> would set AVX2 without AVX?!?!

That's exactly what I said when this was first reported to me as
a crypto bug :)

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