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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:48:24 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Tony W Wang-oc <TonyWWang-oc@...oxin.com>
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpufeatures: extend CPUID leaf 0xc0000001 support
for Zhaoxin
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 09:14:17PM +0800, Tony W Wang-oc wrote:
> The instructions about these flags can be executed at any privilege
> level. I think using these flags in kernel mode is a case. This patch
> shows the statement of these flags to the user mode explicitly. So users
> can see and use these CPU features conveniently.
>
> > If you want to dump them on the hardware to know what's set or not,
> > there's tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/ for that.
See this here. We have this tool exactly for users who wanna see CPU
features. All CPU features, as a matter of fact.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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