From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753826AbZELNts (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 09:49:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754192AbZELNt3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 09:49:29 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:52116 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754027AbZELNt2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 09:49:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for /proc/cpuinfo From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86 maintainers , LKML In-Reply-To: <20090512133950.GA15474@aftab> References: <1242112482.3283.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090512133950.GA15474@aftab> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 19:19:37 +0530 Message-Id: <1242136177.14832.0.camel@ht.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:39 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:44:42PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > > > Here are 2 patches for adding new field extended_cpuid_level, please > > choose PATCH whichever is more appropriate: > > > > PATCH 1: > > Subject: [PATCH] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for /proc/cpuinfo > > > > extended_cpuid_level also gives useful information like cpuid_level > > and very useful for AMD processors. > > > > Adding extended_cpuid_level in /proc/cpuinfo completes cpuid_level info. > > and this is needed because... ?! > why we need cpuid_level ?