Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:18:19 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks |
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* Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:
> > Changes in v2: > * remove references to Processor Trace XSAVE state > (will defer to another patch set) > * Remove some cruft from last patch > * move last_good_offset fix in to the patch that > introduced it > > > These patches make some updates to the x86 XSAVE code. > > There are basically 5 things going on here: > * removal of the LWP (lightweight profiling) code > * naming and type cleanups > * removal of xfeatures_nr variable > * addition of AVX-512 C structures > * new sanity checks of XSAVE buffer sizing > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> > Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> > Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
So conceptually I like this series, modulo the handful of small suggestions I made in my review.
(The extra patch suggestions I made could be added later on in a separate series.)
Thanks,
Ingo
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