2012-06-01 14:54:08

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86, CPU, AMD: Cleanup AMD-specific MSR-rw users

On 06/01/2012 07:52 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
>
> Ok,
>
> the following patchset should take care of all the {rd,wr}msrl_amd_safe
> headaches we had this week. After it is applied, the AMD-specific
> variants become private to amd.c and issue a warning when used on
> anything else beside K8.
>
> This also contains the two patches from Andre which cleanup the PV-side
> of things.
>

Looks good. This can be for 3.6, right (no immediate urgency)?

-hpa


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2012-06-01 14:57:08

by Borislav Petkov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86, CPU, AMD: Cleanup AMD-specific MSR-rw users

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:53:26AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Looks good. This can be for 3.6, right (no immediate urgency)?

None on arch/x86/ - simply correctness fixes.

And I'm assuming since you took Konrad's patch, there are no pending
issues for xen either.

So yeah, this can wait for 3.6, IMHO.

Thanks.

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2012-06-01 15:07:23

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86, CPU, AMD: Cleanup AMD-specific MSR-rw users

On 06/01/2012 07:57 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:53:26AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Looks good. This can be for 3.6, right (no immediate urgency)?
>
> None on arch/x86/ - simply correctness fixes.
>
> And I'm assuming since you took Konrad's patch, there are no pending
> issues for xen either.
>
> So yeah, this can wait for 3.6, IMHO.
>

Great! Will queue up shortly.

-hpa


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