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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276ADECDE3D for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 23:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA97721477 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 23:17:15 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="BsYuTKvN" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org DA97721477 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727398AbeJRHPN (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2018 03:15:13 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:39668 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727316AbeJRHPM (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2018 03:15:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To: Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=A3xmIxQE/qQ44bWf8Ps0hwRkE9rUw8JX3NwGiFM8VeA=; b=BsYuTKvNrh54cw27Kvn4OX+z/ BQ/BJ5dSHu07+qwEgUvJ52NHkKXtSvEjg6CdT7eYRsh+zi5lu54mCJ2ubIWPs+AgjySltJwOCe018 wP7KG1ib8hjiD9XayZ9gPNWn0Hixbjui3voZ0GyiGci6NSgmRsAxgTCoeCEcWtf0nkOUXfRQ0Lto+ nAZuMZalTJY7zfWOOv6mNckzI95kPBJZIKqGR2Doh0aU3/gopD6HP/xX7/USIo7KNnMrSre9WUC9t EYszVLFms0rzDd3qSnuRoxnh1cdsqSi2ASGG5OW7rUBdWsN80TcwnKSYOm/83hA2tYlGLFADnfvQr T6DZdUU1Q==; Received: from static-50-53-52-16.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net ([50.53.52.16] helo=dragon.dunlab) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1gCv3m-0001ox-Fw; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 23:17:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/27] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce XSAVES system states To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Yu-cheng Yu , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Andy Lutomirski , Balbir Singh , Cyrill Gorcunov , Dave Hansen , Eugene Syromiatnikov , Florian Weimer , "H.J. Lu" , Jann Horn , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Mike Kravetz , Nadav Amit , Oleg Nesterov , Pavel Machek , Peter Zijlstra , "Ravi V. Shankar" , Vedvyas Shanbhogue References: <20181011151523.27101-1-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> <20181011151523.27101-4-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> <20181017104137.GE22535@zn.tnic> <32da559b-7958-60db-e328-f0eb316e668e@infradead.org> <20181017225829.GA32023@zn.tnic> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:17:01 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181017225829.GA32023@zn.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/17/18 3:58 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:39:47PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> Would you mind explaining this request? (requirement?) >> Other than to say that it is the preference of some maintainers, >> please say Why it is preferred. >> >> and since the s above won't typically be the same length, >> it's not for variable name alignment, right? > > Searching the net a little, it shows you have asked that question > before. So what is it you really wanna know? OK, you have shown that your web search skills are better than mine. I asked what I really wanted to know. ta. -- ~Randy