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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
	Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 04/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 18:52:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrV9s9+jWgvcbEMkThW9iCcjeTpWu1f67d+TJLp2gV7N_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190201205319.15995-5-chang.seok.bae@intel.com>

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:54 PM Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> wrote:
>
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> Add C intrinsics and assembler macros for the new FSBASE and GSBASE
> instructions.
>
> Very straight forward. Used in followon patches.
>
> [ luto: Rename the variables from FS and GS to FSBASE and GSBASE and
>   make <asm/fsgsbase.h> safe to include on 32-bit kernels. ]
>
> v2: Use __always_inline
>
> [ chang: Revise the changelog. Place them in <asm/fsgsbase.h>. Replace
>   the macros with GAS-compatible ones. ]
>
> If GCC supports it, we can add -mfsgsbase to CFLAGS and use the builtins
> here for extra performance

Does it really get better performance?  If so, let's do it.  If not,
let's remove the comment.  And, whatever you do, please put this above
the [luto] and [chang] parts.
.
>
> [ chang: Use FSGSBASE instructions directly. Removed GAS-compatible
>   macros as the minimum required binutils (v2.21) supports the FSGSBASE
>   instructions. ]

Can you stick the "v2" revision notes below the --- or even just
remove them?  It makes the changelog a lot harder to review and it's
not really useful in the git tree.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-02  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-01 20:53 [PATCH v5 00/13] x86: Enable FSGSBASE instructions Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 01/13] taint: Introduce a new taint flag (insecure) Chang S. Bae
2019-02-02  2:42   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-05 21:21     ` Andrew Morton
2019-02-05 22:46       ` Randy Dunlap
2019-02-05 23:07         ` hpa
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 02/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 03/13] kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21 Chang S. Bae
2019-02-02  2:45   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-05  0:08     ` Andrew Morton
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 04/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions Chang S. Bae
2019-02-02  2:52   ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 04/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics/macros " Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 05/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in the helper functions Chang S. Bae
2019-02-02  2:57   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 06/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Preserve FS/GS state in __switch_to() if FSGSBASE is on Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 07/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: When copying a thread, use the FSGSBASE instructions if available Chang S. Bae
2019-02-02 17:28   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 08/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro Chang S. Bae
2019-02-02 17:17   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-13 18:46     ` Bae, Chang Seok
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 09/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Use the per-CPU base as GSBASE at the paranoid_entry Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 10/13] selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test WRGSBASE Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 11/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE by default and add a chicken bit Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 12/13] x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2 Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 13/13] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add documentation for FSGSBASE Chang S. Bae
2019-02-01 23:02 ` [PATCH v5 00/13] x86: Enable FSGSBASE instructions Andi Kleen
2019-02-02  2:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-05  6:26   ` hpa

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