Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760695AbYG3RUI (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:20:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760328AbYG3RTy (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:19:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47278 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757773AbYG3RTx (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:19:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4890A16D.1000201@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:14:21 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Suresh Siddha CC: Ingo Molnar , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "arjan@linux.intel.com" , "roland@redhat.com" , "drepper@redhat.com" , "mikpe@it.uu.se" , "chrisw@sous-sol.org" , "andi@firstfloor.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support References: <20080729172917.185593000@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <488FA318.3040905@zytor.com> <20080729232951.GB11223@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <488FAB2B.7050405@zytor.com> <20080730100326.GA9683@elte.hu> <4890976D.70103@zytor.com> <20080730170833.GD11223@linux-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20080730170833.GD11223@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1299 Lines: 38 Suresh Siddha wrote: >> It somewhat concerns me, because one of the conflicts is generated by >> collision with x2apic. The rest of them I don't think are too problematic. > > hpa, confilicts with x2apic branch are very small and related to cpuid bits. > > commit 04df16d2465cbb59b84c9c57ad865dbbeebadad8 > Author: Suresh Siddha > Date: Tue Jul 29 10:29:18 2008 -0700 > > x86, xsave: xsave cpuid feature bits > > Add xsave CPU feature bits. > > and > > commit 32e1d0a0651004f5fe47f85a2a5c725ad579a90c > Author: Suresh Siddha > Date: Thu Jul 10 11:16:50 2008 -0700 > > x64, x2apic/intr-remap: cpuid bits for x2apic feature > > cpuid feature for x2apic. > > Both of these patches are straight forward, simple and can be moved > to x86/core(?) now, if that helps. This is true. Cherry-picking those to the x86/core branch is probably the easiest, even if that means they're duplicated in the x2apic branch (I presume we don't want to rebase x2apic). -hpa -- 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/