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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/18] x86/intel_rdt: Feature discovery
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 09:01:44 -0700
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On 10/08/2016 10:11 AM, Nilay Vaish wrote:
>> >  #define X86_FEATURE_RTM                ( 9*32+11) /* Restricted Transactional Memory */
>> >  #define X86_FEATURE_CQM                ( 9*32+12) /* Cache QoS Monitoring */
>> >  #define X86_FEATURE_MPX                ( 9*32+14) /* Memory Protection Extension */
>> > +#define X86_FEATURE_RDT_A      ( 9*32+15) /* Resource Director Technology Allocation */
>> >  #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512F    ( 9*32+16) /* AVX-512 Foundation */
>> >  #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512DQ   ( 9*32+17) /* AVX-512 DQ (Double/Quad granular) Instructions */
>> >  #define X86_FEATURE_RDSEED     ( 9*32+18) /* The RDSEED instruction */
> I think these #defines are specific to Intel.  I would prefer if we
> have _INTEL_ somewhere in them.

While that isn't a horrible idea, it's also not something that we've
enforced at *all* in the past.  Would you suggest that we do this only
for features in the generic CPUID leaves, or all features?