| Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:20:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86/vmware: Update platform detection code for VMCALL/VMMCALL hypercalls |
| |
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> > > Vmware has historically used an "inl" instruction for this, but recent > hardware versions support using VMCALL/VMMCALL instead, so use this method > if supported at platform detection time. We explicitly need to code > separate macro versions since the alternatives self-patching has not > been performed at platform detection time. > > We also put tighter constraints on the assembly input parameters and update > the SPDX license info.
Can you please split the license stuff into a separate patch? You know, one patch one thing. It's documented for a reason.
While at it could you please ask your legal folks whether that custom license boilerplate can go away as well?
Thanks,
tglx |