From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
To: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Daniel P . Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] target/i386: Fix feature names in FEAT_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAPS
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 16:26:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230908162624.552487ba@imammedo.users.ipa.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230908161731.50fa79f4@imammedo.users.ipa.redhat.com>
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 16:17:31 +0200
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 14:45:26 +0200
> Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Fix a copy-paste-mistake in the FEAT_VMX_EPT_VIPD_CAPS cpuid leaf.
> > The mistake became apparent as there were two features with the same name
> > in this cpuid leaf. The names are now in line with SDM volume 3, appendix A,
> > section 10.
>
> these names are user facing ABI, and changing
> them will break users that set these properties on command line.
>
> maybe in addition opencode legacy aliases for them (initfn|realize time)
> + deprecate old names (so we can drop them eventually)
> + warning if old name is used (not sure how to do it easily though)
>
also you do here 2 different things here,
1 fixing duplicate
2 plain rename
I'd split those in 2 different patches
and mention in commit message what features you are are actually changing
PS:
+ see next patch comment and apply it here as well
> > Fixes: 20a78b02d3 ("target/i386: add VMX features")
> > Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > target/i386/cpu.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
> > index 7c2c48ac06..f10d343935 100644
> > --- a/target/i386/cpu.c
> > +++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
> > @@ -1322,8 +1322,8 @@ FeatureWordInfo feature_word_info[FEATURE_WORDS] = {
> > NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> > "vmx-invvpid", NULL, NULL, NULL,
> > NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> > - "vmx-invvpid-single-addr", "vmx-invept-single-context",
> > - "vmx-invvpid-all-context", "vmx-invept-single-context-noglobals",
> > + "vmx-invvpid-single-addr", "vmx-invvpid-single-context",
> > + "vmx-invvpid-all-context", "vmx-invvpid-single-context-noglobals",
> > NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> > NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> > NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-08 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-08 12:45 [PATCH v2 00/10] Generate x86 cpu features Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] target/i386: Add missing feature names in FEAT_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAPS Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 14:06 ` Igor Mammedov
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] target/i386: Fix " Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 14:17 ` Igor Mammedov
2023-09-08 14:26 ` Igor Mammedov [this message]
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] target/i386: Fix duplicated feature name in FEAT_KVM Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 14:21 ` Igor Mammedov
2023-09-15 15:53 ` Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] target/i386: Split out feature_word_info Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] target/i386: Translate feature_word_info to yaml Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] target/i386: Format feature_word_info.c.inc: Remove comments Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] target/i386: Format feature_word_info.c.inc: Fill out feat_names Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] target/i386: Format feature_word_info.c.inc: Unfold cpuid member Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] target/i386: Format feature_word_info.c.inc: Whitespaces and trailing commas Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-08 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] target/i386: Autogenerate feature_word_info.c.inc Tim Wiederhake
2023-09-09 23:42 ` Richard Henderson
2023-09-08 14:48 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] Generate x86 cpu features Igor Mammedov
2023-09-08 16:55 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-09-11 11:26 ` Igor Mammedov
2023-09-15 15:53 ` Tim Wiederhake
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