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 F2BA83793A9 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:21:59 +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=1781292121; cv=none; b=NxXMz4RnaO4G2q5Pfc7qalMn3Dtdwd+ghvUFU0iQDLRiQLLqAWnwakt9PHCIWsDdW0To+TCardB/2Mocyco9FkVhFnnYNvQ+PYv/BWGXW9WzMMGc/GyQu1F9GBSpOVf4m4/dz8tNmTsVPpGFA0+1oO3oNBX9UeGXJkHtmWqLNDM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1781292121; c=relaxed/simple; bh=PEYLIoTbP4eQaB/6oez341ShqzvcKknMPLUQfppPmuE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Lr97cLr4a4cRPG3qyntLuZMqwn5ilHmy1FY7XTfO2+f5RqN1M5L63GhAmZT4DyBID+oUSjc86RYtfqv6vJZhZx+BMrL8gx9GPfC1aule2dZf1kDFUMJZA5RQYk7CibaOPlp2ujEDStkRSTju2102io8K603MVIjyLqzXS2K/2yU= 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=ziigzf0/; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=9RtRaENj; 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="ziigzf0/"; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="9RtRaENj" Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:21:56 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1781292118; 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:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=PEYLIoTbP4eQaB/6oez341ShqzvcKknMPLUQfppPmuE=; b=ziigzf0/e91+5bffGZTXwYAn5iH2sySSoQUGD/Msp3ueVPZb9uMBJCMbYEdNfx8cEpSdeE TVDqfW/BV7Fg3OxWhf7i0lk+Dbe3VN4rZ4eut689jVuF5OAmMmmfcVFflPkbEQRZWmsmOR lGvrIHojeRGwEyOa48/kz/XoYQ4KtJyFtVMHpI/fIdUKkRnS6ob7qMuIkMzTjQ4odLOd29 /8zddNpXxr4TeECIAoQyDHTWCQBNcYDtU/bX5xKErx3ytL39uD4Wr19B+eaGea8VYuTNdd YFd/RnZ2wyb5O5gAHSZaX6ZZhvD5VdreComjMuKSPwjiaGFaKQEb+er6/4smeQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1781292118; 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:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=PEYLIoTbP4eQaB/6oez341ShqzvcKknMPLUQfppPmuE=; b=9RtRaENjKq3wIW+Hrm8dDpI7H/5/3R/hPjiYO4A6oJg+CzQRZ3lZS+qw9kKhEE/gJHtmGd 6ETfJmhPMuCBIdBg== From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" To: Christian Ludloff Cc: Borislav Petkov , Maciej Wieczor-Retman , Dave Hansen , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Cooper , "H. Peter Anvin" , Sohil Mehta , John Ogness , x86@kernel.org, x86-cpuid@lists.linux.dev, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 004/120] x86/cpuid: Introduce Message-ID: References: <20260601203452.GAah3s7FevsRDFT7rF@fat_crate.local> <20260601225306.GDah4NUvJwaqQem4VQ@fat_crate.local> <20260602174746.GJah8XQvEJo9UKru1l@fat_crate.local> <20260603003129.GCah914Tc9sEpO4Nxl@fat_crate.local> <20260608144920.GBaibWcLl3BUAPL8XW@fat_crate.local> 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=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Mon, 08 Jun 2026, Christian Ludloff wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2026, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > I think with issues like that which can cause nasty workarounds, we > > cannot be urgent enough in fixing them. > > > > The database will never be perfect – it is always in catch-up mode > in terms of leaves/fields/values that need to be fixed and/or added. > > That much I can tell you with absolute certainty after more than 30 > years of https://www.sandpile.org/x86/cpuid.htm maintenance, and > yes, being personally responsible for some of the CPUID madness. > > Embrace that chase of completeness and correctness – "perfect is > the enemy of good". Amen to that :) > Ahmed, can you enable gitlab issue tracking? Yup, I've enabled it now. Thanks, Ahmed