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Message-ID: <0b144668-a989-6bc7-0b0d-2195d2d73397@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:02:06 -0800
From:   "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Vedvyas Shanbhogue <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
        Weijiang Yang <weijiang.yang@...el.com>,
        Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 04/26] x86/cpufeatures: Introduce X86_FEATURE_CET and
 setup functions

On 1/12/2021 4:38 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:09:00PM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
>> @@ -1252,6 +1260,16 @@ static void __init cpu_parse_early_param(void)
>>   	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "noxsaves"))
>>   		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES);
>>   
>> +	/*
>> +	 * CET states are XSAVES states and options must be parsed early.
>> +	 */
> 
> That comment is redundant - look at the containing function's name.
> 
> Otherwise patch looks just as it should.
> 
> Thx.
> 

Should I send an updated patch?  Thanks!

--
Yu-cheng

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