Re: [PATCH v14 1/7] x86: lib: Separate instruction decoder MMIO type from MMIO trace

Ingo Molnar
2023-01-03T17:47:56Z

* Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 6:29 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > I guess you missed the conversation with Borislav yesterday about that.
> > > > He mentioned that I'd just take it through random.git when this whole
> > > > series goes in.
> > >
> > > Please base your tree off on tip:x86/asm then (or pull it in) - it only
> >
> > My idea was a lot simpler: avoid the tree inter-dependency by us acking this
> > patch so that it can go through the random.git tree.
>
> Indeed I would prefer this.
>
> Or... just put this in 6.2 because it's trivial anyway? Heck, even mark
> it as stable@ so make future backporting easier. Then it'll meet tip's
> urgent criteria.

Yeah - that's sensible too, it does fix a header namespace bug - I've put
it into tip:x86/urgent.

Thanks,

Ingo