linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] x86,module: Detect VMX modules and disable Split-Lock-Detect

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2004020801210.10453@xps-7390>
Date:   Thu, 2 Apr 2020 08:02:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:   "Kenneth R. Crudup" <kenny@...ix.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] x86,module: Detect VMX modules and disable
 Split-Lock-Detect


On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> This seems like much more of a fixup than we would usually do ....

TBH, I was kinda surprised to see that patchset myself.

	-Kenny, guessing Linus hasn't read this far yet :)

-- 
Kenneth R. Crudup  Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Silicon Valley