Re: [PATCH 0/3] Split lock enumeration cleanup and fixes

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 16 2020 - 17:35:32 EST


Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Need to revisit the sequence of operations when testing for the
> split lock detect feature. It is model specific, so we must check
> the model number before looking at CORE_CAPABILITIES.
>
> I marked it all for stable ... some tweaking would be needed if
> the X86_MATCH_INTEL stuff from v5.7 doesn't get backported.

Why stable? The split lock stuff got merged post 5.6.

Thanks,

tglx