Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo remove cpu_data x86_model_id trailing whitespace

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Mon May 18 2015 - 18:05:19 EST




On 05/18/2015 06:01 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> When comparing 'model name' fields in /proc/cpuinfo it was noticed that
> a simple test comparing the model name fields was failing. After some
> simple investigation it was noticed that, in fact, the model name fields
> are different for each processor. Processor 0's model name field had
> white space removed, while the other processors did not.
>
> Another way of seeing this behaviour is to convert spaces into underscores
> in the output of /proc/cpuinfo,
>
> [thetango@prarit ~]# grep "^model name" /proc/cpuinfo | uniq -c | sed 's/\ /_/g'
> ______1_model_name :_AMD_Opteron(TM)_Processor_6272
> _____63_model_name :_AMD_Opteron(TM)_Processor_6272_________________
>
> which shows two different model name fields even though they should be the
> same.
>
> This occurs because the kernel calls strim() on cpu 0's x86_model_id field
> to output a pretty message to the console in print_cpu_info(), and as a
> result truncates the whitespace at the end of the x86_model_id field.
>
> The x86_model_id field should be the same for the same processors. This
> patch removes traliing space on every processor's x86_model_id field to make
> them consistent and maintains the correct output for print_cpu_info():
>
> smpboot: CPU0: AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6272 (fam: 15, model: 01, stepping: 02)
>
> The x86_model_id field is correct and has no whitespace across all processors:
>
> [thetango@prarit ~]# grep "^model name" /proc/cpuinfo | uniq -c | sed 's/\ /_/g'
> _____64_model_name :_AMD_Opteron(TM)_Processor_6272
>

Nack this ... hpa has suggested that I backwards search from the 48th character
for the first non-null ... I'll put together a new patch.

P.

> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> index a62cf04..fa771bb 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> @@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ static void get_model_name(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> while (q <= &c->x86_model_id[48])
> *q++ = '\0'; /* Zero-pad the rest */
> }
> + strim(c->x86_model_id);
> }
>
> void cpu_detect_cache_sizes(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> @@ -1122,7 +1123,7 @@ void print_cpu_info(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> printk(KERN_CONT "%s ", vendor);
>
> if (c->x86_model_id[0])
> - printk(KERN_CONT "%s", strim(c->x86_model_id));
> + printk(KERN_CONT "%s", c->x86_model_id);
> else
> printk(KERN_CONT "%d86", c->x86);
>
>
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