linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH v5 0/2] sysret_rip update for the Intel FRED architecture

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Message-ID: <A5C220D5-BCE6-42DC-8115-ED41CD011993@zytor.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:24:40 -0800
From:   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:     "Li, Xin3" <xin3.li@...el.com>,
        Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
CC:     "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "andrew.cooper3@...rix.com" <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Lutomirski, Andy" <luto@...nel.org>,
        x86 Mailing List <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
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        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v5 0/2] sysret_rip update for the Intel FRED architecture

On January 25, 2023 9:07:18 AM PST, "Li, Xin3" <xin3.li@...el.com> wrote:
>> > This version passes on FRED, thanks a lot for quickly fixing it.
>> 
>> Great!
>> 
>> Can you pick these two patches and include it in the next version of
>> "x86: enable FRED for x86-64" RFC patchset?
>
>Would it be better to get this patch set merged first?
>
>Otherwise surely I will include it in the FRED patch set.
>
>  Xin
>
> 
>

If the maintainers are ok with it, it would be better to merge it sooner: once we have agreed on the semantics, which I believe we have, we should be testing those semantics and nothing else.