From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/cpuid: refactor setup_clear_cpu_cap()/clear_cpu_cap()
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:19:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1LGkTXCksqAYLHD@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220718141123.136106-3-mlevitsk@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 05:11:20PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Currently setup_clear_cpu_cap passes NULL 'struct cpuinfo_x86*'
> to clear_cpu_cap to indicate that capability should be cleared from boot_cpu_data.
>
> Later that is used in clear_feature to do recursive call to
> clear_cpu_cap together with clearing the feature bit from 'cpu_caps_cleared'
>
> Remove that code and just call the do_clear_cpu_cap on boot_cpu_data directly
> from the setup_clear_cpu_cap.
>
> The only functional change this introduces is that now calling clear_cpu_cap
> explicitly on boot_cpu_data also sets the bits in cpu_caps_cleared,
> which is the only thing that makes sense anyway.
>
> All callers of both functions were checked for this and fixed.
Change looks ok. What I can't grok is this sentence: what was checked
and fixed where?
What does need fixing and why?
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-21 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-18 14:11 [PATCH v2 0/5] x86: cpuid: improve support for broken CPUID configurations Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] perf/x86/intel/lbr: use setup_clear_cpu_cap instead of clear_cpu_cap Maxim Levitsky
2022-09-19 14:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-09-20 8:20 ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-09-26 13:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-09-28 10:49 ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-10-20 8:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-20 9:05 ` Herbert Xu
2022-10-20 10:21 ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-10-20 11:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-22 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-11-02 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-11-02 14:27 ` Elliott, Robert (Servers)
2022-11-02 16:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-11-02 18:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-11-02 19:14 ` Elliott, Robert (Servers)
2022-11-03 13:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-11-03 13:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-10-20 15:17 ` [tip: x86/urgent] perf/x86/intel/lbr: Use setup_clear_cpu_cap() instead of clear_cpu_cap() tip-bot2 for Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/cpuid: refactor setup_clear_cpu_cap()/clear_cpu_cap() Maxim Levitsky
2022-10-21 16:19 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2022-11-07 19:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-11-07 21:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/cpuid: move filter_cpuid_features to cpuid-deps.c Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/cpuid: remove 'warn' parameter from filter_cpuid_features Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/cpuid: check for dependencies violations in CPUID and attempt to fix them Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-28 7:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] x86: cpuid: improve support for broken CPUID configurations Maxim Levitsky
2022-08-01 16:05 ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-08-01 16:31 ` Dave Hansen
2022-08-01 16:41 ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-09-19 13:43 ` Maxim Levitsky
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