Re: [PATCH] alpha: add simd_enabled argument to perf_reg_validate()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 01:49:35PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Hi Magnus!
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 12:23:55PM +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM Thomas Weißschuh
> > <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> (...)
> 
> > Thanks for catching this. I reproduced the build failure on current
> > mainline and confirmed your fix with GENERIC SMP and DP264 UP builds.
> > Both also passed perf register validation and sampling tests in QEMU.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > If you have a route for this patch upstream, please go ahead and take it,
> > unless Linus would prefer to pick it up directly.
> 
> I have no route upstream. I hope for Linus to pick it up.
> But if that does not happen, maybe you could send a PR.

I can stick it in tip/perf/urgent if that helps :-) I'm the one merging
the broken patch in the first place I suppose :/

> How this issue made it past -next would also be interesting to know.

Yeah this; normally I get robots screaming at me for things like this.