Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:17:23 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] x86: add sysfs interface for cpuid module | |
Yi Yang wrote:
>>
>> It's broken, because it doesn't take into account the fact that Intel
>> broke CPUID level 4 and made it "repeating" (neither did the cpuid char
>> device, because it predated the Intel braindamage; I've had a patch for
>> it privately for a while, but didn't push it upstream because paravirt
>> broke it royally and I wanted the situation to settle down.)
> level 4 doesn't result in repeating on Intel CPU, cpuid module sets
> file offset to level, so cat /dev/cpu/*/cpuid will run cpuid instruction
> continuously.
The issue is that Intel suddenly made CPUID ECX-sensitive, which there
is no way to represent.
As far as cat /dev/cpu/*/cpuid, that's a user error.
-hpa
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