linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks

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Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:18:19 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, x86@...nel.org, bp@...en8.de,
	fenghua.yu@...el.com, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks


* Dave Hansen <dave@...1.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@...hat.com>
> Cc: x86@...nel.org
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.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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