From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com (mail-wm0-f48.google.com [74.125.82.48]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC98A6B0009 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 06:55:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm0-f48.google.com with SMTP id p63so69391339wmp.1 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 03:55:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de. [2a01:4f8:120:8448::d00d]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l11si37419747wmd.29.2016.02.11.03.55.43 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 03:55:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:55:39 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 4/4] x86: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery Message-ID: <20160211115539.GD5565@pd.tnic> References: <97426a50c5667bb81a28340b820b371d7fadb6fa.1454618190.git.tony.luck@intel.com> <20160207171041.GG5862@pd.tnic> <20160209233857.GA24348@agluck-desk.sc.intel.com> <20160210110603.GE23914@pd.tnic> <20160210192749.GA29493@agluck-desk.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160210192749.GA29493@agluck-desk.sc.intel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Andy Lutomirski , Dan Williams , elliott@hpe.com, Brian Gerst , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, x86@kernel.org On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:27:50AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > Digging in the data sheet I found the CAPID0 register which does > indicate in bit 4 whether this is an "EX" (a.k.a. "E7" part). But > we invent a new PCI device ID for this every generation (0x0EC3 in > Ivy Bridge, 0x2fc0 in Haswell, 0x6fc0 in Broadwell). The offset > has stayed at 0x84 through all this. > > I don't think that hunting the ever-changing PCI-id is a > good choice ... Right :-\ > the "E5/E7" naming convention has stuck for > four generations[1] (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell). > > -Tony > > [1] Although this probably means that marketing are about to > think of something new ... they generally do when people start > understanding the model names :-( Yeah, customers shouldn't slack and relax into even thinking they know the model names. Fortunately there's wikipedia... Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org