linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/fpu/xstate: Change some names to separate XSAVES system and user states

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Date:   Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:47:52 -0700
From:   Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
        "Shanbhogue, Vedvyas" <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        mike.kravetz@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/fpu/xstate: Change some names to separate
 XSAVES system and user states

On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 08:38 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:40 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com> wrote:
> >
> > To support XSAVES system states, change some names to distinguish
> > user and system states.
> >
> > Change:
> >   supervisor to system
> >   copy_init_fpstate_to_fpregs() to copy_init_fpstate_user_settings_to_fpregs()
> >   xfeatures_mask to xfeatures_mask_user
> >   XCNTXT_MASK to SUPPORTED_XFEATURES_MASK (states supported)
> 
> How about copy_init_user_fpstate_to_fpregs()?  It's shorter and more
> to the point.
> 
> --Andy

I will change that.

Yu-cheng