From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753870Ab2GNNd7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:33:59 -0400 Received: from caiajhbdcaid.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.83]:42226 "EHLO homiemail-a1.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751907Ab2GNNd5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:33:57 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 70258 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:33:57 EDT Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, amd: rename vmmu support capability From: Davidlohr Bueso Reply-To: dave@gnu.org To: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , lkml , kvm list , x86@kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20120714101951.GB26559@liondog.tnic> References: <1342202575.2706.4.camel@offbook> <20120714101951.GB26559@liondog.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: GNU Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:33:52 +0200 Message-ID: <1342272832.2956.5.camel@offbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > > AMD has renamed nested page table technology to rapid virtualization indexing, > > reflect this change in the kernel. > > > > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso > > 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