Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/cpufeature: Add CLZERO feature

From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan
Date: Mon Oct 26 2015 - 11:13:43 EST


(removing peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@xxxxxxxxx as email bounced)

On 10/25/2015 5:37 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 06:18:33AM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
CLZERO instruction introduced in AMD Fam17h processors
zero's out a 64 byte cache line specified in RAX.

Add the bit here to allow /proc/cpuinfo to list the feature

Signed-off-by: Wan Zongshun <Vincent.Wan@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@xxxxxxx>
This SOB chain looks wrong - if Vincent is the author and you're only
sending the patch, then his "From:" needs to appear before the commit
message. git send-email does that correctly, provided the authorship is
correctly set in the local branch you're sending the patch from.

For large part yes, wrapped code in patch form with commit message etc.
And modified comment a little bit.

Does that still require his address in "From"?

/*
@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@
/* Intel-defined CPU QoS Sub-leaf, CPUID level 0x0000000F:1 (edx), word 12 */
#define X86_FEATURE_CQM_OCCUP_LLC (12*32+ 0) /* LLC occupancy monitoring if 1 */
+/* AMD extended feature extension, CPUID level 0x80000008 (ebx), word 13 */
extended ... extension sounds like a tautology, please sanitize.

Haha. True. But looks like that's actually it's name.

If tautologies are not your thing, how about changing comments around 0x80000001,ecx to say "AMD extended features 1" and
for 0x80000008, ebx say "AMD extended features 2"?

Thanks,
-Aravind.
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