linux-kernel - Re: [patch] events/amd/power add support for fam16h model30h

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Message-ID: <20160617103156.GA15997@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:31:57 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>
Cc:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] events/amd/power add support for fam16h model30h

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 06:07:47PM +0800, Huang Rui wrote:
> Agree with you. If the some chips are not stable, we can add a check
> to ignore them with family and model id.

So if family 0x16 is not "stable" as you say, we probably should keep
the cpu_match array too.

Actually, you could merge the feature check in there too, AFAICT, from
looking at x86_match_cpu() and if I'm not misreading it:

static const struct x86_cpu_id cpu_match[] = {
	{ .vendor = X86_VENDOR_AMD, .family = 0x15, .model = X86_MODEL_ANY, .feature = X86_FEATURE_ACC_POWER },
};

And then you can drop the boot_cpu_has() test as x86_match_cpu() does it
for you.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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