Re: [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Changes in v2:
>  * remove references to Processor Trace XSAVE state
>    (will defer to another patch set)
>  * Remove some cruft from last patch
>  * move last_good_offset fix in to the patch that
>    introduced it
> 
> 
> These patches make some updates to the x86 XSAVE code.
> 
> There are basically 5 things going on here:
>  * removal of the LWP (lightweight profiling) code
>  * naming and type cleanups
>  * removal of xfeatures_nr variable
>  * addition of AVX-512 C structures
>  * new sanity checks of XSAVE buffer sizing
> 
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

So conceptually I like this series, modulo the handful of small suggestions I made 
in my review.

(The extra patch suggestions I made could be added later on in a separate series.)

Thanks,

	Ingo
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