Hi James, On 4/30/2020 10:03 AM, James Morse wrote: > Hello! > > These are the miscellaneous cleanup patches that floated to the top of > the MPAM tree. > > The only interesting thing are the patches to make the AMD/Intel > differences something resctrl understands, instead of just 'happening' > because of the different function pointers. > This will become more important once MPAM support is added. parse_bw() > and friends are what enforces resctrl's ABI resctrl. Allowing an > architecture/platform to provide a subtly different function here would > be bad for user-space. > > MPAM would set arch_has_sparse_bitmaps, but not arch_needs_linear. > > Since [v1], I've picked up all the review feedback and collected the > tags. > > Nothing in this series should change any behaviour. > This series is based on v5.7-rc3.
Please note that there are currently some resctrl changes in branch x86/cache of the tip repo that are queued for inclusion into v5.8 that have a few conflicts with this series. When you resubmit it may be helpful if this series is based on that instead. Reinette
