linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] perf/x86/rapl: Modify the generic variable names to *

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Message-ID: <20240701130845.GI20127@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 15:08:45 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Dhananjay Ugwekar <Dhananjay.Ugwekar@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] perf/x86/rapl: Modify the generic variable
 names to *_pkg*

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 05:59:05AM +0000, Dhananjay Ugwekar wrote:
> Prep for addition of power_per_core PMU to handle core scope energy
> consumption for AMD CPUs.
> 
> Replace the generic names with *_pkg*, to differentiate between the
> scopes of the two different PMUs and their variables.

But then remember patch 2 and recall that intel seems to have everything
at die level, not pkg.

Does this proposed naming make sense? How?