From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [193.142.43.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCB68209F38 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.142.43.55 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1742296179; cv=none; b=q6hxM1rPLdnmMotV5ep6P/rI6QEDaqmV9GBkSsRP1O2sGLkUWlmr/ItUcjb+XZunvKJ0rm4MDlyHd9CzdZPsVkQfcjQtOWCrsCNpF3iuSPHFRc8P0hIX+hHYyUJf/nQewGi6LHKL5cAIru0baohXJxqEaDJ/RE56558l7K88Al4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1742296179; c=relaxed/simple; bh=hyVj8uYyP/1SoMIwYvBVqUPsk+CiVLmStLlDmg9A2xo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=XfqW+zqH2UwWtYY5kppmqQehf0OsC1LnUBxsPglT6SPxEzhij1g3ILNi3E0LgiuCb15xk6n5jZ94HxYOFQxp8QDuJJtGOuXuDBT10xDe+fXowlue0BQjZVFh6tvv+1O/5mWcMqpK2bijPuQvmejfRDghYXxCknyOiqyCzgdvXeI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linutronix.de; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=IY3SS548; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=UceKltUO; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.142.43.55 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="IY3SS548"; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="UceKltUO" Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:09:34 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1742296176; 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: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=eic6q/rozoGbuSYNe4ZPpX4CFUhLOFjPoS0vJbaheh0=; b=IY3SS548E6ttGoeKuSmJ3pYh3CqCCSsbmjSc4oAUJBKopjPlf9rairrzHprSG6dQRm3pJi i/qtkje+KLBb/diuDnqEHusdE2FNI9GHOtLSJVZOxjj/FL7ZJk7f/tvvGBD7AscgHuKwk3 tx2u/MvfaJ+91h65kJEE0bNwqsZedfWGddKYDwyPsmNPpcqotFS8er3QMSdp2v3OqfZSOH LNVxehnx8QZMVOXbn/kV/F5cov4IJy+q46dzWVthV4iD3r9bWMdFWBmsSDPdPl7zcoSk6N fm+pSegx0RXdu9YB6lSEieNyLt1DQp3fPibOPofqSN6WeZ/uBffWnCJGK7jSdA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1742296176; 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: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=eic6q/rozoGbuSYNe4ZPpX4CFUhLOFjPoS0vJbaheh0=; b=UceKltUOb4R8knmkk8rPGyTbahs76sp3PW0ul68OPHNfgFTkVg/Suy7oCInnwZBswR31mo Yf96K5AeP12Fx0Cw== From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ingo Molnar , Dave Hansen , Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Cooper , "H. Peter Anvin" , John Ogness , x86@kernel.org, x86-cpuid@lists.linux.dev, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/29] x86/cpu: Remove leaf 0x2 parsing loop and add helpers Message-ID: References: <20250317164745.4754-1-darwi@linutronix.de> <20250317164745.4754-4-darwi@linutronix.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, 17 Mar 2025, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Could you please turn this into at least two patches: > > - One does the functional change - this patch should be as small as > possible. This patch turns a piece of 'Intel documents' property > into 'actual code' that differs from the previous code, which may > or may not regress in practice. > > - The other does the factoring out and the introduction of > . > Sure, will do. Thanks! Ahmed