linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: add reporting of SVM flags to /proc/cpuinfo

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Message-Id: <200703051625.31449.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:25:31 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Joerg Roedel" <joerg.roedel@....com>
Cc:	discuss@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: add reporting of SVM flags to /proc/cpuinfo

On Monday 05 March 2007 15:39, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
> 
> This patch adds the advanced SVM reporting to /proc/cpuinfo on the x86_64
> architecture.

Adding more fields to /proc/cpuinfo is always somewhat risky because
there are lots of badly written parsers for it.

I considered adding the SVM fields myself, but decided against it because
it didn't seem generally useful enough.

-Andi
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