Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965960AbbEER6Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 13:58:24 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:55245 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965286AbbEER57 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 13:57:59 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,373,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="724133910" Message-ID: <554904A6.8040503@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 10:57:58 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Fenghua Yu , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Oleg Nesterov , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 084/208] x86/fpu: Rename xsave.header::xstate_bv to 'xfeatures' References: <1430848300-27877-1-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org> <1430848300-27877-6-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1430848300-27877-6-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 716 Lines: 22 On 05/05/2015 10:49 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > 'xsave.header::xstate_bv' is a misnomer - what does 'bv' stand for? xstate_bv is what it is called in the SDM. I'd really like to see the nomenclature match the SDM where it's sensible because it says lots of things like: XSAVES does not write to any parts of the XSAVE header other than the XSTATE_BV and XCOMP_BV fields. It's nice to have code that does: ...->xstate_bv to match up with that documentation IMNHO. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/