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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Alan Cox wrote:
> > if (c->x86_cache_size >= 0)
> > seq_printf(m, "cache size\t: %d KB\n", c->x86_cache_size);
> >
> > which is silly, because that really can be done with:
> >
> > if (c->x86_cache_size)
> >
> > as there is no point in printing 'cache size 0KB', which means
> > x86_cache_size can be made unsigned int, which makes sense because cache
> > size < 0 does not at all.
>
> Currently 0MB means "I know you have no cache" (early slot 1 celeron),
> while not printing it means 'I have no clue'

Cute. I hope the 3 slot1 celeron users will not go wild if their
/proc/cpuinfo now claims to have no clue about caches.

Thanks,

tglx

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