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

[Magnus Lindholm]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 5:43 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 05:38:56PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 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 :-)
>
> It should be there; please yell if I should drop it because someone else
> (alpha tree) wants it or something.

Thanks for picking this up. Going through tip/perf/urgent works for
me; I won't queue it separately in the Alpha tree.

Thanks,
Magnus