From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jia Zhang <qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: sort cpuinfo flags
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 07:19:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfd39410-7b02-c478-7228-820ab737d4a1@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181221130403.GD1325@zn.tnic>
On 12/21/18 5:04 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> $ grep -m 1 flags /proc/cpuinfo | tr " " "\n" | sort | xargs
>
> and there probably is even a simpler way to do that.
>
> Or add a shell alias for that or a small script or ...
I don't always look at these through the shell. I got a screenshot the
other day, or someone pasted the flags into a spreadsheet.
/proc/cpuinfo is supposed to be human-readable. But, the flags field,
as it stands, is not. You've further proved my point by having to
machine post-process it to make it usable by humans. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-21 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-19 19:50 [PATCH] x86/cpu: sort cpuinfo flags Dave Hansen
2018-12-20 12:02 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-12-20 16:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-21 12:40 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-12-21 13:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-21 13:19 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-12-21 13:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-21 15:19 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2018-12-21 16:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-20 12:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-12-21 9:37 ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-22 7:17 ` kbuild test robot
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