linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2] tools/x86: add kcpuid tool to show raw CPU features

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Message-ID: <29c751e3-d389-297f-074d-53e5f8412783@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:26:41 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] tools/x86: add kcpuid tool to show raw CPU
 features

On 9/25/20 10:24 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> #     LEAF,SUBLEAF,register,  bits,short name, long name
>          1,	 0,	EBX,   7:0,brand,Brand Index
>          1,	 0,	EBX,  15:8,clflush_size,CLFLUSH line size (value * 8) in bytes
>      	 1,	 0,	EBX, 23:16,max_cpu_id,Maxim number of addressable logic cpu ID in this package
> 0x80000000,	12,	EAX,     3,eee, EEE
> 
> and can keep it in tabellary form this way. The parsing code should
> asimply split on ',' and ignore whitespace.
> 
> Thoughts?

Looks fine to me.  It's plenty readable that way too.