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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:40:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A09A688.6080603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090512141027.GA19143@aftab>

Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>>
>> why we need cpuid_level ?
> 
> It is already visible in userspace. I think you've got an answer to a
> very similar question already:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124206571628464
> 

extended_cpuid_level should be motivated, but probably does make sense.
 It hardly "completes" /proc/cpuinfo; especially if you consider that
there are at least three additional ranges in wide use (two used by a
single vendor only, and the third by virtualization software.)

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-12  7:14 [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for /proc/cpuinfo Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-05-12 13:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-12 13:49   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-05-12 14:10     ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-12 16:40       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-05-12 18:13         ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-12 18:47           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-12 19:49             ` Borislav Petkov
2009-06-05 19:20         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-05-13  6:21 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-13  8:03   ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-05 18:38   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-05 20:55     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-06  4:23       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-10 16:40         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-10 17:14           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-10 17:42             ` Borislav Petkov
2009-06-10 17:48               ` H. Peter Anvin

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