Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86/vmware: Update platform detection code for VMCALL/VMMCALL hypercalls

[Thomas HellstrÃm (VMware)]

On 8/18/19 9:20 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
>
> > From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Vmware has historically used an "inl" instruction for this, but recent
> > hardware versions support using VMCALL/VMMCALL instead, so use this method
> > if supported at platform detection time. We explicitly need to code
> > separate macro versions since the alternatives self-patching has not
> > been performed at platform detection time.
> >
> > We also put tighter constraints on the assembly input parameters and update
> > the SPDX license info.
> Can you please split the license stuff into a separate patch? You know, one
> patch one thing. It's documented for a reason.
>
> While at it could you please ask your legal folks whether that custom
> license boilerplate can go away as well?

Sure, I'll drop that from the series for now.

Thanks,

/Thomas