From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
john.hubbard@gmail.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/boot: clear some fields explicitly
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:03:25 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1907252358240.1791@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DFA2707-89A6-4DD2-8DFB-0C2D1ABA1B3C@zytor.com>
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> On July 25, 2019 2:48:30 PM PDT, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > But seriously I think it's not completely insane what they are doing
> > and the table based approach is definitely more readable and maintainable
> > than the existing stuff.
>
> Doing this table based does seem like a good idea.
The question is whether we use a 'toclear' table or a 'preserve' table. I'd
argue that the 'preserve' approach is saner.
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
I surely excuse the brevity, but the formatting mess which that brevity app
creates is not excusable.
Thanks,
tglx
---
Sent from a sane mail client. Nothing to excuse here. All failures are intentional.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-25 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-24 23:15 [PATCH 0/1] x86/boot: clear some fields explicitly john.hubbard
2019-07-24 23:15 ` [PATCH 1/1] " john.hubbard
2019-07-25 2:12 ` hpa
2019-07-25 6:49 ` John Hubbard
2019-07-25 7:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-25 20:33 ` John Hubbard
2019-07-25 21:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-25 21:57 ` hpa
2019-07-25 22:03 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-07-25 22:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-07-25 22:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-26 0:36 ` John Hubbard
2019-07-25 22:42 ` John Hubbard
2019-07-26 7:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-25 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-07-25 20:44 ` John Hubbard
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