Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2001 09:52:07 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo |
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"Martin.Knoblauch" wrote: > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> while trying to enhance a small hardware inventory script, I found that > >> cpuinfo is missing the details of L1, L2 and L3 size, although they may > >> be available at boot time. One could of cource grep them from "dmesg" > >> output, but that may scroll away on long lived systems. > >> > > > >Any particular reason this needs to be done in the kernel, as opposed > >to having your script read /dev/cpu/*/cpuid? > > > > -hpa > > terse answer: probably the same reason as for most stuff in > /proc/cpuinfo :-) >
Terse but just plain wrong.
Most stuff in /proc/cpuinfo is either hard (under some set of circumstances) for userspace to obtain, or it is used by the kernel itself anyway.
-hpa
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