Re: A question about prefetchw detection in "x86/asm: Cleanup prefetch primitives"

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 09:06:51PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> I think it's not an issue in the kernel itself, but announcing
> 3dnowprefetch in /proc/cpuinfo for an old Intel CPU w/o real prefetchw
> implementation seems problematic (to me).

And this is a problem because?

Think practically.

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