From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, amd: rename vmmu support capability
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:33:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1342272832.2956.5.camel@offbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120714101951.GB26559@liondog.tnic>
On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 12:19 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:02:55PM +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
> >
> > AMD has renamed nested page table technology to rapid virtualization indexing,
> > reflect this change in the kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
>
> You know that /proc/cpuinfo is a userspace ABI, right?
Yes.
>
> And are you sure nothing is using that string -
> "npt" - since it got added almost three years ago by
> 414bb144efa2d2fe16d104d836d0d6b6e9265788?
AFAIK no, it's not being used - that doesn't mean, of course, that there
are no users.
Thanks,
Davidlohr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-14 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-13 18:02 [PATCH] x86, amd: rename vmmu support capability Davidlohr Bueso
2012-07-14 10:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-14 13:33 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2012-07-14 13:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-14 14:28 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2012-07-14 17:32 ` Borislav Petkov
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