linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/speculation: Use DECLARE_PER_CPU for x86_spec_ctrl

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjeVbrd3HOMh-t8968pMgZUFs6uP-p45Fn8qr27j8D0aQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:56:12 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/speculation: Use DECLARE_PER_CPU for x86_spec_ctrl_current

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 2:51 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> But if this particular one causes problems for maintainers, I can
> easily just take it right away just cherry-pick it from my own
> test-tree to my "main" tree.

Oh, and as I did that cherry-pick, I suddenly remembered that I think
PeterZ had a slightly different version of it - the one I picked up is
Nathan's "v2".

PeterZ, do you have preferences? I've waited this long, I might as
well wait a bit more before I push out whatever version people prefer.

              Linus