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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: register renaming (part I)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:34:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24d7b8e9-e9af-d4af-44c2-1ca05f85af7b@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58590E27020000780012AD5E@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On 20/12/2016 09:55, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This is a first (of three, as far as current plans go) steps to do away
> with misleading register names (eax instead of rax).
>
> 01: x86/MSR: introduce MSR access split/fold helpers
> 02: x86/guest-walk: use unambiguous register names
> 03: x86/shadow: use unambiguous register names
> 04: x86/oprofile: use unambiguous register names
> 05: x86/HVM: use unambiguous register names
> 06: x86/HVMemul: use unambiguous register names
> 07: x86/SVM: use unambiguous register names
> (VMX counterpart omitted for now, as I'll need to re-base)
> 08: x86/vm-event: use unambiguous register names
> 09: x86/traps: use unambiguous register names
> 10: x86/misc: use unambiguous register names
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>

I haven't looked at these carefully, but they all seem to be sensible
mechanical changes, so

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-20  9:55 [PATCH 00/10] x86: register renaming (part I) Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 10:36 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86/MSR: introduce MSR access split/fold helpers Jan Beulich
2016-12-23  6:17   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-12-26  4:54     ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-12-20 10:36 ` [PATCH 02/10] x86/guest-walk: use unambiguous register names Jan Beulich
2016-12-28 11:18   ` George Dunlap
2016-12-28 13:53     ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 10:38 ` [PATCH 03/10] x86/shadow: " Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 11:04   ` Tim Deegan
2016-12-20 10:39 ` [PATCH 04/10] x86/oprofile: " Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 10:39 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86/HVM: " Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 17:39   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-21 15:31     ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 10:40 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86/HVMemul: " Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 10:41 ` [PATCH 07/10] x86/SVM: " Jan Beulich
2016-12-26  5:46   ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-12-20 10:42 ` [PATCH 08/10] x86/vm-event: " Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 17:30   ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-12-22 16:08   ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-12-20 10:42 ` [PATCH 09/10] x86/traps: " Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 10:43 ` [PATCH 10/10] x86/misc: " Jan Beulich
2016-12-20 17:34 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]

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