Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] x86/setcpuid: Add kernel option setcpuid

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Tue Feb 12 2019 - 11:50:35 EST


On 2/12/19 8:48 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> IFF clearcpuid lives, it should also employ CPUID faulting and clear it
>>> for userspace too.
>> We have it already,
> D'0h right, I thought that was introduced here, but that's just
> extending it to multiple arguments.

... and making it take strings in addition to numbers so folks can use
the strings they see in /proc/cpuinfo.