linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/cpufeature, kvm/svm: Shorten virtualized VMLOAD/VMSAVE flag

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Message-ID: <20170801174110.GA1437@flask>
Date:   Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:41:11 +0200
From:   Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kvm-ML <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpufeature, kvm/svm: Shorten virtualized
 VMLOAD/VMSAVE flag

2017-08-01 17:56+0200, Borislav Petkov:
> Folks,
> 
> in the future, please CC people from the output of
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl when touching cpufeatures.h. AFAICT, not even
> lkml was CCed, not to mention the mandatory x86@...nel.org for x86
> patches.

I think Janakarajan trimmed the output just to kvm.  I'll start bitching
about that.

> ---
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/cpufeature, kvm/svm: Shorten virtualized VMLOAD/VMSAVE flag
> 
> "virtual_vmload_vmsave" is what is going to land in /proc/cpuinfo now
> for a single feature bit which is clearly too long. So call it like it
> is called in the processor manual. "v_vmload_vmsave" is a bit shorter,
> after all.

(PPR for family 17h has it called "v_vmsave_vmload".)

> We could go more aggressively here but having it the same as in the
> processor manual is advantageous.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> Cc: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@....com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>