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

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Tue Jan 03 2023 - 12:49:04 EST


On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 6:47 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> * Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 6:29 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > > > Please base your tree off on tip:x86/asm then (or pull it in) - it only
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> > > 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.
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> > Indeed I would prefer this.
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> > 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.
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> Yeah - that's sensible too, it does fix a header namespace bug - I've put
> it into tip:x86/urgent.

Excellent, thanks. I'll rebase on that when it hits Linus' tree.