From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB45C433ED for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753B4610CA for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235193AbhDKJ0D (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2021 05:26:03 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:59764 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229804AbhDKJ0D (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2021 05:26:03 -0400 Received: from zn.tnic (p200300ec2f23de002e7d52dd33d8f804.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ec:2f23:de00:2e7d:52dd:33d8:f804]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 485DB1EC0283; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 11:25:46 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1618133146; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=Gv2RXv40YjtCzlOZL0wWbh/CUOV9xLmCkRj2zzVplVk=; b=B8TZtCk0Nin2Q4eI79aiGTGGpP+s2R8svFThA7abtKWL76U7xctlFBDSq+cfAdGljsSGv6 i7OA5v7e9ZrkNGER+WVJgA567/OUVNOYkvtOhL2SQMk01xwsXgCEayu7RrMqkPqO28cXbj 8Dy1ScCmlItYak7c0mCqZppR1Z4AEpQ= Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 11:25:43 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Dave Hansen , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86 , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: pat: Do not compile stubbed functions when X86_PAT is off Message-ID: <20210411092543.GB14022@zn.tnic> References: <198c94a8-12ea-88e7-6f08-b3456473e5c3@siemens.com> <87r1z6xxh5.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> <802cefc7-b475-c6d6-ece7-8232d7f3891d@web.de> <20210411091056.GA14022@zn.tnic> <7c606ebd-e8d8-0853-bab5-5e77b1359dcc@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7c606ebd-e8d8-0853-bab5-5e77b1359dcc@web.de> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:12:32AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > The patches are coming from downstream usage, yes, Ok, for the future, it would be good to mention that in the commit message so that a committer knows what they're for. > but I think the solutions are relevant cleanups for upstream as well. Yeah but you know that we generally don't do "preemptive" fixes like that. But those are small enough so I don't see a problem... Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette