linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 08:33:50 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number
 of CPU

>> +

>> +void intel_cpu_detect_tlb(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> 
> cpu_detect_tlb() is __cpuinit and it calls into this one, maybe this
> whole facility should be __cpuinit/__cpuinitdata because its results
> land in the tlb_ll*_* arrays and all those functions and table can be
> thrown away then because they're not needed anymore.


Yes, you r right.
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