From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86 for review III] [17/29] x86: Add new CPUID bits for AMD Family 10 CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:37:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D0EC39.8030608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702122323.53364.andi@firstfloor.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Since we seem to have become the place where all these are collected,
>> shouldn't we document what they mean?
>
> This is not a data sheet and the CPU vendors have fine tech writers
> working on this already.
>
> Also I don't really want to encourage people to hack this without
> at least taking a basic look at the documentation first.
>
>> I've got some this machine that
>> I'd like to know more about:
>>
>> dts ss ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr
>
> All documented in Intel documentation. But it's all relatively boring stuff
>
> dts = debug trace store
> ss = self snoop
> ds_cpl = cpl qualified debug store
> est = enhanced speedstep
> tm2 = thermal monitor 2
> ssse3 = more sse3 instructions
> xtpr = tpr register chipset update control msr
>
That's exactly what I was asking for. Our abbreviations are too cryptic
to let someone go look up the meanings without a lot of trouble.
A one-liner for each in the comments would be just enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-12 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-12 16:51 [PATCH x86 for review III] [1/29] i386: avoid gcc extension Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [2/29] i386: support Classic MediaGXm Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [3/29] i386: entry.S END/ENDPROC annotations Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [4/29] x86_64: clean up sparsemem memory_present call Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [5/29] i386: arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c should #include <asm/bugs.h> Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [6/29] i386: Remove unused kernel config option X86_XADD Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [7/29] x86_64: update IO-APIC dest field to 8-bit for xAPIC Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 19:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [8/29] x86_64: avoid warning message livelock Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [9/29] x86_64: Minor patch for compilation warning in x86_64 signal code Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [10/29] i386: don't include bugs.h Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 17:35 ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-12 18:33 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [11/29] i386: add option to show more code in oops reports Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [12/29] x86_64: 32-bit ptrace mangles sixth system call argument Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 22:04 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-02-12 22:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-14 17:52 ` Jeff Dike
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [13/29] i386: geode configuration fixes Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [15/29] x86_64: Fix wrong gcc check in bitops.h Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [16/29] i386: Remove fastcall in paravirt.[ch] Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [17/29] x86: Add new CPUID bits for AMD Family 10 CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 22:11 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-02-12 22:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 22:37 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-02-12 22:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 23:04 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [18/29] i386: Add L3 cache support to AMD CPUID4 emulation Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [19/29] x86: Enable NMI watchdog for AMD Family 0x10 CPUs Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [20/29] i386: Fix warning in microcode.c Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [21/29] i386: Fix warning in cpu initialization Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [23/29] x86: Don't require the vDSO for handling a.out signals Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [24/29] x86_64: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [25/29] i386: paravirt unhandled fallthrough Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [26/29] i386: Move mce_disabled to asm/mce.h Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [27/29] i386: Rename cpu_gdt_descr and remove extern declaration from smpboot.c Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [28/29] i386: Remove extern declaration from mm/discontig.c, put in header Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 16:51 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [29/29] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64 Andi Kleen
2007-02-12 19:43 ` [PATCH x86 for review III] [1/29] i386: avoid gcc extension Jochen Voß
2007-02-12 20:18 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-13 15:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-13 16:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-13 16:52 ` Andi Kleen
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