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SubjectRe: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu_debug.c prepare report if files are inappropriate or CPU is not supported

* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hello Ingo,
>
> On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 12:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > The main beef i had with your code is that it copies CPU enumeration
> > over into some local variables (cpu_modelflag, cpu_model) with
> > redundant encodings and decodings which dont fully work.
> >
> > Is there anything that your encoding/decoding does that cannot be
> > done via the standard methods?
> >
>
> I removed cpu model info. May be this will create some issues on
> ancient machine as now it depends on rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() and I
> hope it will be safe ;-)

rdmsr_safe() should really be safe. (If it isnt then that primitive
needs fixing, not the code that uses it.)

> Can you please check this patch on ancient and latest machines.
>
>
> [PATCH] x86: cpu_debug remove model information to reduce encoding-decoding
>
> Remove model information, encoding/decoding and reduce bookkeeping.
>
> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_debug.h | 101 +---------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu_debug.c | 417 +++++++++-----------------------------
> 2 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 421 deletions(-)

This actually looks like to be a very nice cleanup as well, as can
be seen from the massive line count reduction. I'll give it some
testing.

Ingo


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