Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/xstate: Make AVX512 status tracking more accurate

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 03:47:17PM -0500, Noah Goldstein wrote:
> This patch splits the timestamps for tracking the AVX512 status into

For future submissions, please avoid having "This patch" or "This
commit" in the commit message. It is tautologically useless.

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> @@ -1282,8 +1292,27 @@ static void avx512_status(struct seq_file *m, struct task_struct *task)
>  			delta = LONG_MAX;
>  		delta = jiffies_to_msecs(delta);
>  	}
> +	return delta;
> +}
>  
> -	seq_put_decimal_ll(m, "AVX512_elapsed_ms:\t", delta);

Regardless of whether I think this exposing of AVX512 usage is silly
or not, we do not break userspace by changing those strings which some
script or tool already probably relies upon.

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    Boris.

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