From: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Xin Li <xin@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
will@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, yury.norov@gmail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, acme@kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org,
brgerst@gmail.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:54:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8973bfd4-d8b2-4dd7-ae1a-3f685dff769f@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250225174915.GBZ74Cm2Xpc_WwS3oe@fat_crate.local>
On 25.02.25 г. 19:49 ч., Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 09:10:01AM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
>> After looking into the build issue, we think it's better to change to perl;
>> GNU awk has quite a few extended features that standard awk doesn't support,
>> e.g., BEGINFILE/FPAT/...
>
> ... which will make the kernel build depend on yet another tool. I know,
> I know, perl is everywhere but someone would crawl out of the woodwork
> complaining that building the kernel pulls in even more stuff.
>
But don't we use perl even now:
$ find . -iname *.pl | wc -l
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-25 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-06 7:07 Xin Li (Intel)
2025-01-06 7:07 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add {required,disabled} feature configs Xin Li (Intel)
2025-02-14 21:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-15 10:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-02-15 14:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-15 14:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-02-15 14:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-15 14:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-02-15 14:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-01-06 7:07 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] x86/cpufeatures: Generate a feature mask header based on build config Xin Li (Intel)
2025-01-06 7:07 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] x86/cpufeatures: Remove {disabled,required}-features.h Xin Li (Intel)
2025-01-06 7:07 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] x86/cpufeatures: Use AWK to generate {REQUIRED|DISABLED}_MASK_BIT_SET Xin Li (Intel)
2025-01-06 7:07 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add the CPU feature bit for MSR immediate form instructions Xin Li (Intel)
2025-02-22 16:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-22 18:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-24 7:30 ` Xin Li
2025-02-24 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-02-11 2:25 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks Xin Li
2025-02-23 10:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-25 17:10 ` Xin Li
2025-02-25 17:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-25 17:54 ` Nikolay Borisov [this message]
2025-02-25 18:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-25 18:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-02-25 18:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-25 18:37 ` Xin Li
2025-02-25 20:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
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