From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEE8C77B73 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2023 17:23:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234940AbjFERXG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2023 13:23:06 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45462 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232155AbjFERXC (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2023 13:23:02 -0400 Received: from mail.zytor.com (unknown [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::138]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE5E799; Mon, 5 Jun 2023 10:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.27.2.41] ([73.231.166.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.zytor.com (8.17.1/8.17.1) with ESMTPSA id 355HMksg3951694 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 5 Jun 2023 10:22:47 -0700 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mail.zytor.com 355HMksg3951694 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zytor.com; s=2023051001; t=1685985768; bh=dNbwMJpH98YofN6seUiE6EOuBEm/hSuJhvwQqv0+58c=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=kNzpVnk7Uv7Ye6YR23yAl/HYe3amoO8YRHL/v0GGB+VqYZ4z4Mc02hggwILlQR228 MiZUeCo2FjJv+i/cTavbVn2VGWLNwCPVHWgLaFYUx9vgAg4uJNzVmIfNI1VO830rlM yr3yNR+d2CVo9L7byH1uZ0ZKXzX1/X2Na61qnBeyLFQHsFz1h025/I1Nos0XYOto9u 4NY1gDvzw+GStAu0aHX09PpA5GhIUps3z6J4WveeAjw3Vz5MswdymZzvNcetJkDzGP OHu2wZW2gU3krCLzWYtXQcnZ+iu2v7OAmP9xCaKFZ8rxxratxkzSTFog/I3VAMU7to pDp01vjbMgPTg== Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 10:22:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/33] x86: enable FRED for x86-64 Content-Language: en-US To: Xin Li , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, peterz@infradead.org, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, seanjc@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, ravi.v.shankar@intel.com, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, shan.kang@intel.com References: <20230410081438.1750-1-xin3.li@intel.com> From: "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <20230410081438.1750-1-xin3.li@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org So I feel obliged to throw in some defending of Xin here, mostly because in some of these cases I'm the perkeleen vittupää[1] and not Xin. The other thing is that this patchset is from April and predates the recent FRED changes (which were unanticipated at the time); I explicitly asked Xin to hold off making updates until the spec had restabilized. -hpa [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132