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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1D5EEAA7F for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231253AbjIOBQ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:16:59 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50306 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231178AbjIOBQ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:16:57 -0400 Received: from mail-ej1-x633.google.com (mail-ej1-x633.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::633]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBB45268E for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ej1-x633.google.com with SMTP id a640c23a62f3a-9a58dbd5daeso220192566b.2 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:16:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=citrix.com; s=google; t=1694740611; x=1695345411; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:from:user-agent:mime-version:date :message-id:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=NPhAEJforhjWZp+uVyQ1+GyAsVZzUl1B486vJg9MvnA=; b=qc0HR92ns3kwOlSuTfQ7vELR7rhC1HJlvaiK5pD+E6oVGzbyAlJiA0zsQdgHhwGogh esNR9ivv7SCtib/rLWOICnDa7LdUDc350eNd+Ao/CRMGSl07p7GxmiX/QXgA2U5kt4az XxkHPUMa9rK1jBT9jMGI22o6tVMLecG+UR4K8= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1694740611; x=1695345411; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:from:user-agent:mime-version:date :message-id:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=NPhAEJforhjWZp+uVyQ1+GyAsVZzUl1B486vJg9MvnA=; b=sZUjBqCr7licz4gFhk7GH0fVuFANUcRLE72HzGD2KXLnspY40iR9r2vwpPjdva91zW B4vYLPe4yN5tQo3idFaOxWRijUB6eb8xKGlY0QzI9j7/QPe7fGvQ/CZ8bI6uYKcXF8Dp 6VVwZu+oRGXIO8+jB1Yuj47EwaEo6DQB+NJy2yjIjYMfUaZcFs9kpGzrLUuGwEOfDEKT erQK2c7Q9+FSpF6dcZkHRvx/BKQY0bAMbZ6U0OHTAt8g1tFh3v8+nZuk4KELMfoE/ajX iYL+jBpObh90xngIIDmfujb6bnOneufVwpkiLJodrgFJy/k2xItL9lZemhqvHOq9XtGZ oBWg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yz6C79JO87sB0kFCxPnr424kYcmm+7yWuU2JR0GUQu4InLwg1HV /n7AsWfita9L4g7iKEmcv+QZ0w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IE7O+PeUxB72+aWKd2SThAEBmIs9sfrCItn5Ff0aKMedVWukOd31H6m4Ef8LNnP3BDRvPbAaw== X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:3f49:b0:99c:56d1:7c71 with SMTP id f9-20020a1709063f4900b0099c56d17c71mr118141ejj.26.1694740611206; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (host-92-12-44-130.as13285.net. [92.12.44.130]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v7-20020a1709064e8700b00977cad140a8sm1674597eju.218.2023.09.14.18.16.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6575702e-fea5-61b2-dd61-7b556a8603e8@citrix.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:16:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 From: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 03/38] x86/msr: Add the WRMSRNS instruction support Content-Language: en-GB To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Xin Li , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, luto@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, seanjc@google.com, peterz@infradead.org, jgross@suse.com, ravi.v.shankar@intel.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com References: <20230914044805.301390-1-xin3.li@intel.com> <20230914044805.301390-4-xin3.li@intel.com> <6f5678ff-f8b1-9ada-c8c7-f32cfb77263a@citrix.com> <87y1h81ht4.ffs@tglx> <7ba4ae3e-f75d-66a8-7669-b6eb17c1aa1c@citrix.com> <0e7d37db-e1af-ac40-6eca-5565d1bebcde@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <0e7d37db-e1af-ac40-6eca-5565d1bebcde@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 15/09/2023 2:01 am, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The whole bit with alternatives and pvops being separate is a major > maintainability problem, and honestly it never made any sense in the > first place. Never have two mechanisms to do one job; it makes it > harder to grok their interactions. This bit is easy. Juergen has already done the work to delete one of these two patching mechanisms and replace it with the other. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a32e211f-4add-4fb2-9e5a-480ae9b9bbf2@suse.com/ Unfortunately, it's only collecting pings and tumbleweeds. ~Andrew