Re: [patch V6 01/19] x86/cpu: Provide cpuid_read() et al.

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Feb 13 2024 - 16:37:53 EST


On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 10:04:00PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> +static inline void __cpuid_read(unsigned int leaf, unsigned int subleaf, u32 *regs)
> +{
> + regs[CPUID_EAX] = leaf;
> + regs[CPUID_ECX] = subleaf;
> + __cpuid(regs, regs + 1, regs + 2, regs + 3);

Yeah,

__cpuid(regs, regs + CPUID_EBX, regs + CPUID_ECX, regs + CPUID_EDX);

explains what those numbers are.

Thx.

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