From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/3] x86: Adding structs to reflect cpuid fields
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:06:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <541AD8F3.5010700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140917140601.GE5358@nazgul.tnic>
Il 17/09/2014 16:06, Borislav Petkov ha scritto:
>> > AFAIK backward compatibility is usually maintained in x86. I did not
>> > see in Intel SDM anything that says "this CPUID field means something
>> > for CPU X and something else for CPU Y". Anyhow, it is not different
>> > than bitmasks in this respect.
> You still don't get my point: what are you going to do when
> min_monitor_line_size needs to be 17 bits all of a sudden?
The extra bit used to be reserved and thus will be zero on older
families. So, nothing?
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-18 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-16 12:22 [PATCH 0/3] x86: structs for cpuid info in x86 Nadav Amit
2014-09-16 12:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: Adding structs to reflect cpuid fields Nadav Amit
2014-09-16 12:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: Use new cpuid structs in cpuid functions Nadav Amit
2014-09-16 12:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: Using cpuid structs in KVM Nadav Amit
2014-09-16 13:22 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86: structs for cpuid info in x86 Ingo Molnar
2014-09-16 20:19 ` Nadav Amit
2014-09-17 12:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-17 12:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-17 12:54 ` [RESEND PATCH " Nadav Amit
2014-09-17 12:54 ` [RESEND PATCH 1/3] x86: Adding structs to reflect cpuid fields Nadav Amit
2014-09-17 13:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-17 13:53 ` Nadav Amit
2014-09-17 14:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-17 15:04 ` Radim Krčmář
2014-09-17 15:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-18 0:29 ` Radim Krčmář
2014-09-18 7:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-18 10:00 ` Radim Krčmář
2014-09-18 13:06 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-09-18 13:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-18 13:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19 7:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 8:59 ` Nadav Amit
2014-09-19 10:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19 14:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-17 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-17 12:54 ` [RESEND PATCH 2/3] x86: Use new cpuid structs in cpuid functions Nadav Amit
2014-09-17 12:54 ` [RESEND PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: Using cpuid structs in KVM Nadav Amit
2014-09-17 14:12 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86: structs for cpuid info in x86 Peter Zijlstra
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