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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	kitsunyan <kitsunyan@airmail.cc>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/msr: do not warn on writes to OC_MAILBOX
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:24:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201021132433.GI2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae3367ab7d4eb4778b51f798436ab975d7f8a303.camel@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:21:48AM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 19:15 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> These command id are model specific. There is no guarantee that even
> meaning changes. So I don't think we should write any code in kernel
> which can't stick.
> 
> 
> > In any case, my point is that we could have a sysfs interface for
> > those userspace-suppliable values like the undervolt value at
> > [31:21],
> > dunno if the index can be inferred by the kernel automatically or
> > enumerated and the commands we should issue ourselves depending on
> > the
> > functionality, etc.

Why not have a full undervolt driver. That is, don't expose OC_MAILBOX
_at_all_, but have a model specific driver that provides undervolt
capabilities.

Someone is now maintaining this thing in userspace, might as well do it
as a kernel driver and keep all the icky bits inside.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-21 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-07  9:48 [PATCH] x86/msr: do not warn on writes to OC_MAILBOX Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-09-07 10:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-07 10:46   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-09-07 11:11     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-07 11:15       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-09-07 11:23         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-08 17:10   ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2020-09-08 17:12     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-09-08 17:25       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-08 17:29         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-09-08 17:36           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-08 17:42             ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-09-08 18:01               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-08 19:07                 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-09-08 19:18                 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-09-08 19:30                   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-08 20:35                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-08 22:32                       ` Matthew Garrett
2020-09-09 23:56                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-09  1:02                     ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2020-09-10  0:08                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-19 17:15                       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-20 17:21                         ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2020-10-20 17:47                           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-20 18:40                             ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2020-10-20 19:40                               ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-21 13:11                                 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2020-10-22 19:28                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-21 13:24                           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-09-08 17:31     ` Borislav Petkov

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