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On 7/25/19 3:37 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 7/25/19 3:03 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
>>>> On July 25, 2019 2:48:30 PM PDT, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> But seriously I think it's not completely insane what they are doing
>>>>> and the table based approach is definitely more readable and maintainable
>>>>> than the existing stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Doing this table based does seem like a good idea.
>>>
>>> The question is whether we use a 'toclear' table or a 'preserve' table. I'd
>>> argue that the 'preserve' approach is saner.
>>>
>> I agree.
> 
> Now we just need to volunteer someone to do that :)
> 

Happy to jump in and do that, since I have an easy repro of the warning here.

In case you missed an earlier response [1], I did have a lingering question 
about what you had in mind for the "to preserve" approach:

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/ffd7a9b6-8017-2d2c-c4f7-65563094ccd0@nvidia.com

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA