Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Add Documentation for /proc/cpuinfo flags

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 01:06:58PM -0700, Kyung Min Park wrote:
> Include two instances of features for which there are not implemented
> use cases in the kernel.
> 
> Patch 1 creates a new documentation for /proc/cpuinfo flags bits.
> Patch 2 adds X86_FEATURE_SERIALIZE.
> Patch 3 adds X86_FEATURE_TSXLDTRK.
> 
> This RFC series has been reviewed by Dave Hansen.

Yeah, and he and I talked about this on IRC. If you really want to dump
CPUID to see what's there, we should do a userspace tool in tools/ or
even use the ones which are already out there: x86info, cpuid, ...

Just adding X86_FEATURE_* flags without usage in the kernel makes no
sense and will cause unnecessary bloat and doesn't help one bit because
userspace simply calls CPUID directly.

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