Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933793AbcLARAe (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:00:34 -0500 Received: from mail-ua0-f171.google.com ([209.85.217.171]:35983 "EHLO mail-ua0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754577AbcLARAc (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:00:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161201111539.xsvvcymbb2lvqyvb@pd.tnic> References: <56690623af05784f41a4efbe1b25b1e2c43fdefb.1480536936.git.luto@kernel.org> <20161201055350.GH3092@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20161201090211.nrlyjt5uklcva3pd@pd.tnic> <20161201111539.xsvvcymbb2lvqyvb@pd.tnic> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 09:00:11 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/CPU: Add X86_FEATURE_CPUID To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Andy Lutomirski , X86 ML , One Thousand Gnomes , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Brian Gerst , Matthew Whitehead , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Denys Vlasenko , "H . Peter Anvin" , Josh Poimboeuf , Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 530 Lines: 16 On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:07:21AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Yes, that makes a lot of sense. > > Here it is: > > --- > From: Borislav Petkov > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:11:37 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] x86/CPU: Add X86_FEATURE_CPUID > > Add a synthetic CPUID flag denoting whether the CPU sports the CPUID > instruction or not. This will come useful later when accomodating > CPUID-less CPUs. Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski