linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cache updates for 4.21

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Message-ID: <20181228124904.GC20003@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:49:04 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cache updates for 4.21


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 12:26:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I've pulled this, but I think the new config option name is bad.
> > 
> > I think it should probably have been called "X86_RESCTRL" instead of
> > just "RESCTRL". That's way too generic a name for something that is
> > (at least currently) very much an x86 feature.
> 
> Right you are...

... and it's almost as if someone complained about this already:

   https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/23/389

   "Also, the Kconfig space, when it gets extended with the AMD bits, should
    probably follow the same nomenclature: CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESOURCE_CONTROL=yor such."

;-)

Anyway, I kind of dropped the ball after that first round of complaints, 
should have looked again.

Thanks,

	Ingo