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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use enum instead of literals for trap values
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:28:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120309182829.GA13745@aftab> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKHJGmTktKNYDmpZziKRLM-bw-dTK5tboR706J_s6j7NQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:21:52AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > I have to admit personally to prefer something like X86_XCP_XX where XX
> > is the two-letter code that the Intel documentation uses for that trap,
> > i.e. #GP, #BR, #MC and so on.
> 
> We need a single person to decide on this bike shed color. :) If the
> list of enum names can be agreed on, I'll be happy to do the
> search/replace for it.

Well,

here are my 2¢: I agree with hpa because

a) it maps the CPU vendor documentation
b) it is nicely short

Thanks.

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Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09  7:42 [PATCH] x86: use enum instead of literals for trap values Kees Cook
2012-03-09  9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-09 16:30   ` Kees Cook
2012-03-09 17:57     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-09 18:21       ` Kees Cook
2012-03-09 18:28         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-03-09 18:52           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-09 20:10             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-09 22:13               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-09 22:23                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-10  8:34                 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-03-09 18:54           ` Kees Cook
2012-03-09 19:08             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-09 19:14               ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-09 19:58               ` Kees Cook
2012-03-09 20:13               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-09 20:21                 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-10 10:15                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-10 13:54                     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-10 14:27                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-11  7:52     ` Alexey Dobriyan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-22 22:44 [PATCH] x86: Use " John Kacur
2013-02-01 17:18 ` Ben Hutchings

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