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Message-ID: <20200622193103.GW134822@grain>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:31:03 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:     "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21] perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES for arch LBR
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 03:11:07PM -0400, Liang, Kan wrote:
> > 
> > The goto and "return" statement before the "rollback" label
> > looks pretty ugly. I'm sorry I didn't follow the series
> > in details so if you plan to add more handlers at "rollback"
> > then sure.
> > 
> 
> There were several handlers when I first implemented the function, but they
> are removed now. I don't think I will add more handlers in the next version.
> I will remove the "rollback" label.
> 
> Thanks for pointing it out.

This could be done on top of the series of course, no need to resend
for this sole change I think.