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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:38:27 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Jiaxi Chen <jiaxi.chen@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] x86: KVM: Advertise CMPccXADD CPUID to user space
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 10:46:21PM +0800, Jiaxi Chen wrote:
> Features which has been enabled in kernel usually should be added to
> /proc/cpuinfo.
No, pls read this first: Documentation/x86/cpuinfo.rst
If something's not clear, we will extend it so that it is.
/proc/cpuinfo - a user ABI - is not a dumping ground for CPUID bits.
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