Received: by 2002:ac0:a582:0:0:0:0:0 with SMTP id m2-v6csp1459253imm; Tue, 2 Oct 2018 08:31:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV61Bg1GaDUSJb+L7WOF1MjblODzf33IrjIUEIU7I3X9R8uqKnXHkSwKO5p0lM2xEXCiXHVEH X-Received: by 2002:a63:a42:: with SMTP id z2-v6mr14570106pgk.209.1538494282063; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 08:31:22 -0700 (PDT) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1538494282; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=UG8Hq6qQ3N/cNvYr50j/pAZUghhHU2vaBD4qbz4kSYiGPFIyxkM7uspJqV1ONolfz+ yiukGzVimosTIf/Ndak9ieK0GkxaP6SD5GrDyuSDBV1+QAE+eWtdmd+k4brTkRyZ/sBr IYpv11q2hPkp+BCQFZzy1mn+yrQwASYNeahLOMxvKg+QaSCp+321Ngwq/RjWf4hwc3Sq d6Naql29jlbnt+2mDjsUCe9sqJab+CtmWMbqHDvIXTATgEgL15HmeXUrD88wbgxaagre eQnaW/wLy+OmpfFQVPbK9JbRlykwiE48fd6K8+AwbKXJAuKgtcOjfKR1PXqJqWpnO+Wf Ccog== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=list-id:precedence:sender:user-agent:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:mime-version :references:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date; bh=z7D4FXug9GaD3h8sibhsXtuMEjUtow+Y3kx5B6VKxoQ=; b=IksmDEbY5p58ndwWtMxbHfAkGyTyK7eJU9rbYgpmxZlvkNc00oqUPzE25rjV+7+/zi 6kEEBQB0h1sD/XI+C0y1RDF4ZpEu+0E/vRVoIBOaK+QGVX0hHYAtUebl6Boudk2irh/B kiRhFgXsRs2rVwCUwUuhSfP5JOFVMGZn7ZRvjUKYCPgT1Iud/oYIYzzfUgUpHwwXylhC yQDfwXCdCrwCZL0/h/H8HAMOFFTE264Wp0VYFvdyEFe7B5BCqkYZf2ZAJ7bTVZJvaMWr SqoSQUJcC9gLZfKUUWp4VC4RmYPmkTnw0Sa/cWwLXo5EmZaJW3/LZCldZB86NPu9UJZB WJ5g== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l136-v6si17607333pfd.132.2018.10.02.08.31.06; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 08:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727540AbeJBWM6 (ORCPT + 99 others); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 18:12:58 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:60370 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726330AbeJBWM6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 18:12:58 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: Nedap ESD1 at mail.skyhub.de Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (blast.alien8.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id uDytq2NR1IPx; Tue, 2 Oct 2018 17:29:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zn.tnic (p200300EC2BC64F00329C23FFFEA6A903.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ec:2bc6:4f00:329c:23ff:fea6:a903]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id CCAC01EC021C; Tue, 2 Oct 2018 17:29:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 17:29:03 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Yu-cheng Yu Cc: x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Andy Lutomirski , Balbir Singh , Cyrill Gorcunov , Dave Hansen , Florian Weimer , "H.J. Lu" , Jann Horn , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Mike Kravetz , Nadav Amit , Oleg Nesterov , Pavel Machek , Peter Zijlstra , Randy Dunlap , "Ravi V. Shankar" , Vedvyas Shanbhogue Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 02/27] x86/fpu/xstate: Change some names to separate XSAVES system and user states Message-ID: <20181002152903.GB29601@zn.tnic> References: <20180921150351.20898-1-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> <20180921150351.20898-3-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20180921150351.20898-3-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:03:26AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > To support XSAVES system states, change some names to distinguish > user and system states. I don't understand what the logic here is. SDM says: XSAVES—Save Processor Extended States Supervisor the stress being on "Supervisor" - why does it need to be renamed to "system" now? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.