Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4

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Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4

06 May 2023, 06:30 AM

Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4

While these days Linus Torvalds is mostly dealing with herding new code into the Linux kernel and being a gate keeper rather than actively developing new kernel code himself, for the in-development Linux 6.4 he's found himself doing a bit of coding...

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4 - Phoronix

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08 May 2023, 09:14 AM

Apart from the purely functional stuff, this one seems important as well:

- move all the code that is 64-bit only into the 64-bit version of the header file, so that we don't unnecessarily pollute the shared x86 code and make it look like LAM might work in 32-bit too.
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