Re: [PATCH 00/15] Intel VSEC/PMT: Introduce Discovery Driver

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon May 19 2025 - 13:22:15 EST


On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 08:30:59AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 02:20:49PM -0700, David E. Box wrote:
> > 4. Discovery Driver and API: The core of the series is the addition of
> > the PMT Discovery driver. This driver not only implements discovery of
> > telemetry attributes and capability data (exposed via sysfs) but also
> > introduces an API to retrieve telemetry regions by feature, which is
> > essential for features like per-RMID telemetry counters.
>
> This part of the series is the foundation for my telemetry/resctrl
> patches:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250429003359.375508-1-tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> That series includes a fake place holder for the discovery driver, but
> I've been using David's patches for all my testing on real hardware.
>
> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

Ilpo, Hans,

Linus released -rc7 as the likely final rc before opening merge window
next week.

Are David's patches in shape to be part of that merge? Or will I be
using them out of tree for another cycle?

Thanks

-Tony