Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak

From	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak
Date	2016-06-14 20:40 +0200
Message-ID	<rK1pN-88-59@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Organization	Intel Corporation

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On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:24:16 -0700
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On 06/14/2016 10:01 AM, Lukasz Anaczkowski wrote:
> > v2 (Lukasz Anaczkowski):
> >     () fixed compilation breakage  
> ...
> 
> By unconditionally defining the workaround code, even on kernels where
> there is no chance of ever hitting this bug.  I think that's a pretty
> poor way to do it.
> 
> Can we please stick this in one of the intel.c files, so it's only
> present on CPU_SUP_INTEL builds?

Can we please make it use alternatives or somesuch so that it just goes
away at boot if its not a Knights Landing box ?

Alan

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[PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Lukasz Anaczkowski <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 18:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 18:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 18:50 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "Anaczkowski, Lukasz" <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:00 +0200
    [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Lukasz Anaczkowski <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-06-14 20:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 21:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-06-14 21:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-14 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-06-14 22:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-14 23:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-14 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-06-14 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-14 23:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-06-14 20:20 +0200
        RE: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "Anaczkowski, Lukasz" <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-15 15:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 20:40 +0200
        RE: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "Anaczkowski, Lukasz" <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-15 15:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 22:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-15 22:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 22:30 +0200
      [PATCH v3] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Lukasz Anaczkowski <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-16 17:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 18:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-16 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 22:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 23:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-15 04:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 04:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-15 04:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 04:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-15 05:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 05:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:30 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "Anaczkowski, Lukasz" <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-15 15:10 +0200

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