linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 00/40] x86: Leaf 0x2 and leaf 0x4 refactorings

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Message-ID: <Z8iLm6NOgbn7Ir2E@lx-t490>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:36:27 +0100
From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@...utronix.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	x86-cpuid@...ts.linux.dev, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/40] x86: Leaf 0x2 and leaf 0x4 refactorings

On Tue, 04 Mar 2025, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > I've applied these three to tip:x86/urgent. I added Cc: stable to all 3
> > commits, because while these are old bugs, the first one had Cc: stable
> > and if we do it for one it's justified for all of them AFAICS. Arguably
> > our cacheinfo output in procps was inaccurate at times, and possibly
> > these bugs were part of the problem.
> >
...
> >
> > I've applied patches 4 to 9 to tip:x86/cpu (with x86/urgent merged in
> > due to dependencies and to give a singular topical base branch in the
> > x86 tree), they look good and obvious. (I added the build fix to 05/40)
> >
> > I've left 10 to 40 for further review by others too.
>
> While going through the rest I also picked up these patches as easy
> preparatory commits in tip:x86/cpu, there was no reason to have them
> later in the series:
>
>   29517791c478 x86/cacheinfo: Remove the P4 trace leftovers for real
>   d61b5118f719 x86/cacheinfo: Remove unnecessary headers and reorder the rest
>   0d22030c49bf <linux/sizes.h>: Cover all possible x86 CPU cache sizes
>

ACK on all the notes.

Thanks a lot for the amazing turnaround time :)