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From: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
To: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
	Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, nrb@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] s390/cpufeature: rework to allow different types of cpufeatures
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:49:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YtEb+ZeHJ+NbuQKD@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220713125644.16121-1-seiden@linux.ibm.com>

Maybe, I am bit late ...

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 02:56:41PM +0200, Steffen Eiden wrote:
> Currently the s390 implementaion of cpufeature is limited to elf_hwcap
> bits. Using these to automatically load modules also exposes this
> cpufeature to userspace which, sometimes is not intended.

Those features are (always) exposed to user space as module loading is
actually done by udev rules. However, we had some pseudo-hwcaps (e.g. sie64a)
in the past.. but I very appreciate this change!

Thanks.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-15  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-13 12:56 Steffen Eiden
2022-07-13 12:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] s390/cpufeature: rework to allow more than only hwcap bits Steffen Eiden
2022-07-13 13:50   ` Claudio Imbrenda
2022-07-15  7:59   ` Hendrik Brueckner
2022-07-15  9:32     ` Heiko Carstens
2022-07-13 12:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] s390/cpufeature: allow for facility bits Steffen Eiden
2022-07-13 12:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] s390/uvdevice: autoload module based on CPU facility Steffen Eiden
2022-07-14 10:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] s390/cpufeature: rework to allow different types of cpufeatures Heiko Carstens
2022-07-15  7:49 ` Hendrik Brueckner [this message]

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