Re: [PATCH] x86/cpufeature, kvm/svm: Shorten virtualized VMLOAD/VMSAVE flag

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Tue Aug 01 2017 - 13:41:20 EST


2017-08-01 17:56+0200, Borislav Petkov:
> Folks,
>
> in the future, please CC people from the output of
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl when touching cpufeatures.h. AFAICT, not even
> lkml was CCed, not to mention the mandatory x86@xxxxxxxxxx for x86
> patches.

I think Janakarajan trimmed the output just to kvm. I'll start bitching
about that.

> ---
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/cpufeature, kvm/svm: Shorten virtualized VMLOAD/VMSAVE flag
>
> "virtual_vmload_vmsave" is what is going to land in /proc/cpuinfo now
> for a single feature bit which is clearly too long. So call it like it
> is called in the processor manual. "v_vmload_vmsave" is a bit shorter,
> after all.

(PPR for family 17h has it called "v_vmsave_vmload".)

> We could go more aggressively here but having it the same as in the
> processor manual is advantageous.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>