From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 17:03:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48224361.5080102@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48224318.8020209@keyaccess.nl>
Rene Herman wrote:
>>
>> Okay, that is utter nonsense. /proc/cpuinfo has always been, and will
>> always be, the CPU *AS THE KERNEL SEES IT*. If you want something
>> else, use x86info(1).
>
> What a lovely way of syncing reality with your definitions. The kernel
> _does_ see that my CPU features PAT, it just refuses to use it because
> it doesn't trust it enough. Vital difference. Maybe not to the kernel,
> but definitely to me, the user. /proc/cpuinfo is a user interface.
>
No, /proc/cpuinfo is informing the user about the kernel's view of the
CPU. It has always been the "cooked" view of CPUID, whether or not you
like it.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 1:48 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6 Rene Herman
2008-05-07 2:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 12:46 ` Undocumented and duplicated code Adrian Bunk
2008-05-07 13:14 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 20:52 ` 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6 Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 20:59 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 21:10 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 21:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 21:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-07 22:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 22:04 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 22:23 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 22:31 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 0:02 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-05-08 0:10 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 0:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 0:28 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 1:57 ` [PATCH] x86: introduce a new Linux defined feature flag for PAT support Rene Herman
2008-05-08 1:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 2:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 2:17 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 2:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 2:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 12:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-08 13:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 13:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-08 13:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-08 14:44 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 14:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-08 16:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 16:53 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 2:04 ` [PATCH] x86: enable PAT support on AMD Duron model 7 Rene Herman
2008-05-08 2:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-08 2:12 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 10:19 ` [PATCH] x86: introduce a new Linux defined feature flag for PAT support Andi Kleen
2008-05-08 12:40 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 13:39 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-08 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-08 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 0:21 ` 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6 Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-08 0:30 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 0:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 10:14 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-08 16:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-07 21:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-07 21:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 22:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-07 22:14 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 22:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 22:37 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 22:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 23:02 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 23:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 23:10 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 23:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 22:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 22:39 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 22:45 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 23:06 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 23:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-07 22:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 22:30 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 22:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 13:00 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 13:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 14:09 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 14:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 19:08 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 22:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 19:39 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-05-07 20:06 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 20:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 20:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-08 4:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2008-05-07 20:44 matthieu castet
2008-05-07 20:46 ` matthieu castet
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