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Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 18:17:26 +0000
From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, "x86@...nel.org"
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] x86/cpu: Fix x86_match_cpu() to match just
X86_VENDOR_INTEL
> I'm confused. Why not simply use say -1 for wildcard vendor match, -2 for no vendor ID (no CPUID or other known probing mechanism) and -3 for unrecognized vendor (vendor detectable but not known.)
It was really convenient to have "0" be the wildcard for all of vendor, family, model, stepping, feature because users of x86_match_cpu() could just initialize the fields they cared about in the struct x86_cpu_id and have the compiler make the rest be 0 automagically.
But X86_VENDOR_INTEL being zero has always been a thorn in that scheme.
-Tony
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