Re: [PATCH v14 1/7] x86: lib: Separate instruction decoder MMIO type from MMIO trace

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Tue Jan 03 2023 - 12:31:29 EST


On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 6:29 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > I guess you missed the conversation with Borislav yesterday about that.
> > > He mentioned that I'd just take it through random.git when this whole
> > > series goes in.
> >
> > Please base your tree off on tip:x86/asm then (or pull it in) - it only
>
> My idea was a lot simpler: avoid the tree inter-dependency by us acking this
> patch so that it can go through the random.git tree.

Indeed I would prefer this.

Or... just put this in 6.2 because it's trivial anyway? Heck, even
mark it as stable@ so make future backporting easier. Then it'll meet
tip's urgent criteria.

Jason