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=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 A613EC433DF for ; Thu, 14 May 2020 15:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8653120657 for ; Thu, 14 May 2020 15:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727853AbgENP3v (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2020 11:29:51 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:39332 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726073AbgENP3v (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2020 11:29:51 -0400 IronPort-SDR: b4iUlTtT6bDNbXGeyk8NK755cOZmaW9Z7k6o26Yi9S2eTtEYSoOj96Du/EC3xt05z09Q1z9Q04 pMwBHWwFQ9wQ== X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 14 May 2020 08:29:50 -0700 IronPort-SDR: 3uiV/wEn+3vMZXN2iNc6MZ2p2ixmNfK1JgzkPylJxfDEbijZBkkO+AP4Xx8YEprXLayci0Hn5w MMzixJsO0oPQ== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.73,391,1583222400"; d="scan'208";a="280892639" Received: from rchatre-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.254.66.120]) ([10.254.66.120]) by orsmga002-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 14 May 2020 08:29:48 -0700 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] x86/resctrl: Misc cleanup To: James Morse , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Fenghua Yu , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , H Peter Anvin , Babu Moger References: <20200430170400.21501-1-james.morse@arm.com> From: Reinette Chatre Message-ID: <893fb221-1ec9-7fc0-c25d-299c0222c52a@intel.com> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 08:29:46 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200430170400.21501-1-james.morse@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi James, On 4/30/2020 10:03 AM, James Morse wrote: > Hello! > > These are the miscellaneous cleanup patches that floated to the top of > the MPAM tree. > > The only interesting thing are the patches to make the AMD/Intel > differences something resctrl understands, instead of just 'happening' > because of the different function pointers. > This will become more important once MPAM support is added. parse_bw() > and friends are what enforces resctrl's ABI resctrl. Allowing an > architecture/platform to provide a subtly different function here would > be bad for user-space. > > MPAM would set arch_has_sparse_bitmaps, but not arch_needs_linear. > > Since [v1], I've picked up all the review feedback and collected the > tags. > > Nothing in this series should change any behaviour. > This series is based on v5.7-rc3. Please note that there are currently some resctrl changes in branch x86/cache of the tip repo that are queued for inclusion into v5.8 that have a few conflicts with this series. When you resubmit it may be helpful if this series is based on that instead. Reinette