linux-kernel - Re: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/topology/amd: Evaluate SMT in CPUID leaf 0x8000001e only on family 0x17 and greater

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Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 14:21:28 +0200
From: Christian Heusel <christian@...sel.eu>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/topology/amd: Evaluate SMT in CPUID leaf
 0x8000001e only on family 0x17 and greater

On 24/05/30 10:59AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 12:40:50AM +0200, Christian Heusel wrote:
> > it seems like somehow the patch has lost the following two trailers
> > compared to the list variant[0] while being applied:
> > 
> >     Bisected-by: Christian Heusel <christian@...sel.eu>
> >     Cc: regressions@...ts.linux.dev
> > 
> > Did that happen on purpose or did some scripts fail?
> 
> Well, we don't add unknown tags because it was getting unwieldy and
> Bisected-by is not really one we do. I can offer
> 
> 	Reported-by: Christian Heusel <christian@...sel.eu>
> 
> as bisection is important work and it should be documented.
> 
> How does that sound?

Sounds good! I thought it was a thing because I saw it used in a few
places, i.e. here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=e37617c8e53a1f7fcba6d5e1041f4fd8a2425c27

I'll keep it in mind for future bug reports! :)

Have a nice week,
Chris

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