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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, eranian@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 2/5] perf/x86/kvm: Avoid unnecessary work in guest filtering
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 19:15:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204181504.GH29639@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c429bbd-00fb-2e3a-7d58-27123400b722@linux.intel.com>

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 11:55:27AM -0500, Liang, Kan wrote:

> We cannot apply X86_STEPPING_ANY to ignore the stepping. There will be
> problems for 0-8 stepping for KABYLAKE_MOBILE.

So why are we even doing this new "interface"
x86_cpu_has_min_microcode_rev() if even at the conversion stage it shows
that it is inadequate?

> I think what we need is x86_match_cpu_with_stepping_range().
> But I don't think it is worth enabling it just for this rare case.

Sounds to me like you wanna go back to the drawing board after having
evaluated all the use cases.

And yes, I can imagine:

+struct x86_cpu_desc {
+       __u8    x86;            /* CPU family */
+       __u8    x86_vendor;     /* CPU vendor */
+       __u8    x86_model;
+       __u8    x86_min_stepping;
+       __u8    x86_max_stepping;
+       __u32   x86_microcode_rev;
+};

along with the usage:

INTEL_CPU_DESC(mod, min_step, max_step, rev)

to make it more elegant.

Question is, can you have a given microcode revision X applying to
multiple revisions?

If yes, the above should work...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-04 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-21 21:42 [PATCH V6 1/5] x86/cpufeature: Add facility to check for min microcode revisions kan.liang
2019-01-21 21:42 ` [PATCH V6 2/5] perf/x86/kvm: Avoid unnecessary work in guest filtering kan.liang
2019-02-04 15:06   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-04 15:17     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-04 15:39       ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-04 15:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-04 15:43     ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-04 16:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-04 16:18         ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-04 15:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-04 15:57       ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-04 16:04         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-04 16:23           ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-04 16:41             ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-04 16:13         ` Andi Kleen
2019-02-04 16:23         ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-04 16:55           ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-04 18:15             ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-02-04 18:57               ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-04 19:43                 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-04 20:37                   ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-04 16:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-04 16:16     ` Liang, Kan
2019-01-21 21:42 ` [PATCH V6 3/5] perf/x86/intel: Clean up SNB pebs quirk kan.liang
2019-01-21 21:42 ` [PATCH V6 4/5] perf/x86/intel: Clean up counter freezing quirk kan.liang
2019-01-21 21:42 ` [PATCH V6 5/5] perf/x86/intel: Add counter freezing quirk for Goldmont kan.liang
2019-02-04 14:27 ` [PATCH V6 1/5] x86/cpufeature: Add facility to check for min microcode revisions Liang, Kan

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