From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, bp@alien8.de,
fenghua.yu@intel.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:18:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150828051819.GG25556@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150827171102.1BDF27E5@viggo.jf.intel.com>
* Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:
>
> Changes in v2:
> * remove references to Processor Trace XSAVE state
> (will defer to another patch set)
> * Remove some cruft from last patch
> * move last_good_offset fix in to the patch that
> introduced it
>
>
> These patches make some updates to the x86 XSAVE code.
>
> There are basically 5 things going on here:
> * removal of the LWP (lightweight profiling) code
> * naming and type cleanups
> * removal of xfeatures_nr variable
> * addition of AVX-512 C structures
> * new sanity checks of XSAVE buffer sizing
>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
So conceptually I like this series, modulo the handful of small suggestions I made
in my review.
(The extra patch suggestions I made could be added later on in a separate series.)
Thanks,
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-28 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-27 17:11 Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 4:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 03/11] x86, fpu: rework XSTATE_* macros to remove magic '2' Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 02/11] x86, fpu: rename xfeature_bit Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 5:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86, fpu: remove xfeature_nr Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 5:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 05/11] x86, fpu: add helper xfeature_nr_enabled() instead of test_bit() Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 5:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 06/11] x86, fpu: rework MPX 'xstate' types Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 07/11] x86, fpu: rework YMM definition Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 08/11] x86, fpu: add C structures for AVX-512 state components Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 5:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size calculations Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 4:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-28 14:31 ` Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 16:44 ` Andi Kleen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86, fpu: check to ensure increasing-offset xstate offsets Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 5:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-28 16:02 ` Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 5:18 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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