linux-kernel - [077/114] Oprofile: Change CPUIDS from decimal to hex, and add some comments

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Message-Id: <20100824224507.929161385@clark.site>
Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:45:22 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	"John L. Villalovos" <john.l.villalovos@...el.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Subject: [077/114] Oprofile: Change CPUIDS from decimal to hex, and add some comments

2.6.35-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: John Villalovos <sodarock@...il.com>

commit 45c34e05c4e3d36e7c44e790241ea11a1d90d54e upstream.

Back when the patch was submitted for "Add Xeon 7500 series support to
oprofile", Robert Richter had asked for a followon patch that
converted all the CPU ID values to hex.

I have done that here for the "i386/core_i7" and "i386/atom" class
processors in the ppro_init() function and also added some comments on
where to find documentation on the Intel processors.

Signed-off-by: John L. Villalovos <john.l.villalovos@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c |   16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
+++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
@@ -634,6 +634,18 @@ static int __init ppro_init(char **cpu_t
 	if (force_arch_perfmon && cpu_has_arch_perfmon)
 		return 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * Documentation on identifying Intel processors by CPU family
+	 * and model can be found in the Intel Software Developer's
+	 * Manuals (SDM):
+	 *
+	 *  http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/
+	 *
+	 * As of May 2010 the documentation for this was in the:
+	 * "Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's
+	 * Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide", "Table B-1
+	 * CPUID Signature Values of DisplayFamily_DisplayModel".
+	 */
 	switch (cpu_model) {
 	case 0 ... 2:
 		*cpu_type = "i386/ppro";
@@ -655,12 +667,12 @@ static int __init ppro_init(char **cpu_t
 	case 15: case 23:
 		*cpu_type = "i386/core_2";
 		break;
+	case 0x1a:
 	case 0x2e:
-	case 26:
 		spec = &op_arch_perfmon_spec;
 		*cpu_type = "i386/core_i7";
 		break;
-	case 28:
+	case 0x1c:
 		*cpu_type = "i386/atom";
 		break;
 	default:


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