While Linux 6.5 is expected for release tomorrow, the flow of last minute fixes isn’t over.

Sent out today were some x86 fixes for Linux 6.5 Git ahead of its final tagging — or Linux 6.5-rc8 if Linus Torvalds decides to drag out the release by an extra week. Making the weekend pull request notable is that it has a fix for a performance regression due to a missing set of X86_FEATURE_OSXSAVE.

The patch addressing the issue explains that Intel’s