Re: [PATCH 3/10 -tip] x86: Add cpufeatures for Advanced Power Management

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>]

Hello Thomas,

On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 14:17 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > Do you really believe that open-coding x86_capability[9] in .../common.c
> > > is better than the open-coding in ../powernow-k8.c ?
> > > 
> > 
> > BTW, then how you can set x86_capability[9] in one shot ? do you want me
> > to set each bit with set_cpu_cap() ?
> 
> Using "9" as an array index is the point. This needs to be a constant
> near the other constants which describe the bits and a big fat comment.
> 

You mean these should also use constant and big fat comment :

arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h:#define ELF_HWCAP            (boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[0])
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c:          c->x86_capability[5] = cpuid_edx(0xC0000001);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:           c->x86_capability[0] = capability;
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:           c->x86_capability[4] = excap;
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:                   c->x86_capability[1] = cpuid_edx(0x80000001);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:                   c->x86_capability[6] = cpuid_ecx(0x80000001);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/transmeta.c:                        c->x86_capability[2] = cpuid_edx(0x80860001);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/transmeta.c:        c->x86_capability[0] = cpuid_edx(0x00000001);
arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c:      processor.featureflag = boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[0];
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c: new_cpu_data.x86_capability[0] = cpuid_edx(1);
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:       new_cpu_data.x86_capability[0] = cpuid_edx(1);

So should I also make constant for all x86_capability.

Peter, Ingo:
Do you think we need to arrange x86_capability in some order, currently
we are using x86_capability numbering in random order.

Thanks,
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JSR