linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [2/8] GBPAGES: Add feature macros for the gbpages cpuid bit

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Message-Id: <200801240757.08851.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:57:08 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/8] GBPAGES: Add feature macros for the gbpages cpuid bit

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 22:26:35 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 19 2008 07:48, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >Subject: [PATCH] [2/8] GBPAGES: Add feature macros for the gbpages cpuid
> > bit
>
> Is there already a flag for /proc/cpuinfo or could you add one?

There is already one called pdpe1gb.  I don't think it's a very clear name, 
although AMD calls it the same. Calling it gbpages in /proc/cpuinfo would
have been probably better (and my old original patch did that too), but I 
didn't catch the new name submitted by someone else in time.

-Andi
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