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Message-ID: <20200622151502.GE32200@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:15:02 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] x86/msr: Move the F15h MSRs where they belong

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:17:37AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> So this reverts the change you made to the tools copy of that file and
> then does the change you need to the kernel sources, ok.
>
> In the future the change will be made just in the kernel files, as
> kernel developers don't have to have the burden of checking if tooling
> continues to work when they change kernel files.

Always nice to have less work. :-)

> That way later the perf developers get the warning in the perf build
> process, see how this change in a file that is a copy from the kernel
> sources affects tooling, and act upon it, simply updating the copy or
> doing that + extra tooling adjustments, perhaps a new feature, etc.

Nice.

> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

Thanks, queueing.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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