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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>,
	Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] tools/x86: add kcpuid tool to show raw CPU features
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:17:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200925201707.GQ16872@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200925194804.GA757220@rani.riverdale.lan>

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 03:48:04PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Ok. Another suggestion: while designing the format for the cpuid.txt
> file, would it be possible to include enough information for
> cpufeatures.h to be auto-generated from it?

I think you're missing the previous discussion on this topic. In short:
/proc/cpuinfo is not CPUID but what the kernel supports. The kcpuid tool
is supposed to dump CPUID leafs and it should be updatable the easiest
way possible.

Here's some more documentation which should make this more clear:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=ea4e3bef4c94d5b5d8e790f37b48b7641172bcf5

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22  5:27 [RFC PATCH v2] tools/x86: add kcpuid tool to show raw CPU features Feng Tang
2020-09-22 19:38 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-25  7:22   ` Feng Tang
2020-09-25 17:27   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-22 20:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-22 22:15   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-23  2:45     ` Feng Tang
2020-09-25 17:16       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-25 19:48         ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-25 20:17           ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-09-25 20:40             ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-25 20:57               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-25 17:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-25 17:26   ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-28  7:07   ` Feng Tang
2020-09-28  8:34     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-28  8:56       ` Feng Tang

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