Re: [PATCH v6 04/12] x86/alternative: support not-feature

2021-03-10 Thread Jürgen Groß
On 10.03.21 15:15, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 08:52:40AM +0100, Jürgen Groß wrote: Did you look at patch 13? :-) Well, I usually review in increasing patch order. :-P But make that change here pls because otherwise unnecessary churn. Okay. Juergen OpenPGP_0xB0DE9DD6

Re: [PATCH v6 04/12] x86/alternative: support not-feature

2021-03-10 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 08:52:40AM +0100, Jürgen Groß wrote: > Did you look at patch 13? :-) Well, I usually review in increasing patch order. :-P But make that change here pls because otherwise unnecessary churn. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-ne

Re: [PATCH v6 04/12] x86/alternative: support not-feature

2021-03-09 Thread Jürgen Groß
On 10.03.21 07:07, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 02:48:05PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: Add support for alternative patching for the case a feature is not present on the current cpu. For users of ALTERNATIVE() and friends an inverted feature is specified by applying the ALT_NOT

Re: [PATCH v6 04/12] x86/alternative: support not-feature

2021-03-09 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 02:48:05PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > Add support for alternative patching for the case a feature is not > present on the current cpu. > > For users of ALTERNATIVE() and friends an inverted feature is specified > by applying the ALT_NOT() macro to it, e.g.: > > ALTERNAT

[PATCH v6 04/12] x86/alternative: support not-feature

2021-03-09 Thread Juergen Gross
Add support for alternative patching for the case a feature is not present on the current cpu. For users of ALTERNATIVE() and friends an inverted feature is specified by applying the ALT_NOT() macro to it, e.g.: ALTERNATIVE(old, new, ALT_NOT(feature)) Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross --- V5: - spli