On 2/25/19 10:49 AM, speck for Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 07:34:11AM -0800, speck for Andi Kleen wrote:


>> However I will probably not be able to write a detailed
>> description for each of the interrupt handlers changed because
>> there are just too many.
> 
> Then how do you expect each subsystem / driver author to know if this is
> an acceptable change or not?  How do you expect to educate driver
> authors to have them determine if they need to do this on their new
> drivers or not?  Are you going to hand-audit each new driver that gets
> added to the kernel for forever?
> 
> Without this type of information, this seems like a futile exercise.

Forgive me if I'm being too cautious here, but it seems to make most
sense to have the basic MDS infrastructure in place at unembargo. Unless
it's very clear how the auto stuff can be safe, and the audit
comprehensive, I wonder if that shouldn't just be done after.

Jon.

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