linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Implement sysfs based cpuinfo for x86 cpus.

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Message-Id: <59824864020000EE001C9890@smtp.nue.novell.com>
Date:   Wed, 02 Aug 2017 23:47:16 +0200
From:   "Felix Schnizlein" <fschnizlein@...e.com>
To:     <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     <yanmin.zhang@...el.com>, <x86@...nel.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Thomas Renninger" <trenn@...e.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Implement sysfs based cpuinfo for x86 cpus.

>>> Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> 08/02/17 7:47 PM >>>
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 07:35:16PM +0200, Felix Schnizlein wrote:
>> Enable sysfs cpuinfo for x86 based cpus. Export often used cpu
>> information to sysfs. Stepping, cpu flags, cpu bugs, bogomips,
>> cpu family, vendor_id, model, and model_name are exported.
>> 
>> Sysfs documentation is updated to reflect changes.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Felix Schnizlein <fschnizlein@...e.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.com>
>> ---
>> 
>>  Changes since v1:
>>   - add missing documentation parts
>>   - fix wording in documentation description

> Note, your subject lines could use a bit better work.  How about:
>   cpuinfo: implement sysfs nodes for x86

True, I will update them accordingly when I repost the next time.
>
> That makes it easier to see/sort in my inbox.  Same for patch 1.
>
> Anyway, I'd really like to see this for another cpu arch at the same
> time, just to verify you really have the correct api/interface here.
> Can you do it for arm64 or something else as well?

Sure, I will look into what devices are available for me and implement
another arch.

Felix
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h