linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] x86, xsave: some code cleanups and reworks, -v2

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Message-Id: <1279736394.2812.7.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:19:54 -0700
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] x86, xsave: some code cleanups and reworks, -v2

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:03 -0700, Robert Richter wrote:
> Hans Peter, Suresh, and Cyrill, thanks for your feedback.
> 
> This is version 2 of the patch series.
> 
> Patches 2, 4, 7 are unchanged compared to -v1.
> 
> Patch 1 folds the initialization code into one patch. fpu_init() is
> now called before xsave_init(). xsave_init() can later overwrite
> xstate_size based on xstate features.
> 
> Patch 3 replaces all hardcoded XSTATE_CPUID values know. cpuid_level
> is now taken from boot_cpu_data.
> 
> Patches 5 and 6 are new:
> * add __init attribute to setup_xstate_features()
> * disable xsave in i387 emulation mode

Apart from the cleanup comments that I had for "[PATCH 6/7] x86, xsave:
disable xsave in i387 emulation mode", all other patches look good to
me.

Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>

Thanks.

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