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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/16] x86/cpu: Print VMX features as separate line item in /proc/cpuinfo
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On 07/10/19 21:56, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 07:12:37PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 04/10/19 23:56, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
>>> index cb2e49810d68..4eec8889b0ff 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
>>> @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
>>>
>>> #include "cpu.h"
>>>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_VMX_FEATURE_NAMES
>>> +extern const char * const x86_vmx_flags[NVMXINTS*32];
>>> +#endif
>>> +
>>> /*
>>> * Get CPU information for use by the procfs.
>>> */
>>> @@ -102,6 +106,17 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>>> if (cpu_has(c, i) && x86_cap_flags[i] != NULL)
>>> seq_printf(m, " %s", x86_cap_flags[i]);
>>
>> I'm afraid this is going to break some scripts in the wild. I would
>> simply remove the seq_puts below.
>
> Can you elaborate? I'm having trouble connecting the dots...

Somebody is bound to have scripts doing "grep ^flags.*ept /proc/cpuinfo"
or checking for VMX flags under some kind of "if (/^flags/)", so it's
safer not to separate VMX and non-VMX flags.

Paolo

>> Paolo
>>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_VMX_FEATURE_NAMES
>>> + if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_VMX) && c->vmx_capability[0]) {
>>> + seq_puts(m, "\nvmx flags\t:");
>>> + for (i = 0; i < 32*NVMXINTS; i++) {
>>> + if (test_bit(i, (unsigned long *)c->vmx_capability) &&
>>> + x86_vmx_flags[i] != NULL)
>>> + seq_printf(m, " %s", x86_vmx_flags[i]);
>>> + }
>>> + }
>>> +#endif
>>> +
>>> seq_puts(m, "\nbugs\t\t:");
>>> for (i = 0; i < 32*NBUGINTS; i++) {
>>> unsigned int bug_bit = 32*NCAPINTS + i;

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