linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v12 24/37] x86/idtentry: Incorporate definitions/declarations of the FRED entries

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:39:01 +0000
From:   "Li, Xin3" <xin3.li@...el.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v12 24/37] x86/idtentry: Incorporate
 definitions/declarations of the FRED entries

> > FRED and IDT can share most of the definitions and declarations so
> > that in the majority of cases the actual handler implementation is the
> > same.
> >
> > The differences are the exceptions where FRED stores exception related
> > information on the stack and the sysvec implementations as FRED can
> > handle irqentry/exit() in the dispatcher instead of having it in each
> > handler.
> >
> > Also add stub defines for vectors which are not used due to Kconfig
> > decisions to spare the ifdeffery in the actual FRED dispatch code.
> >
> > Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@...el.com>
> 
> This makes me wonder too who the author is. The commit message text sounds
> like tglx. :)

You have a very good sense 😊

This is mostly from his review comments and suggestions on my original
changes to IDTENTRY.  So probably I should put a "Suggested-by" instead
of "Signed-off-by" as HPA pointed out!

Thanks!
    Xin