[CRIU] [PATCH 06/22] cpu: Prepare scaffold for obtaining cpu features

Cyrill Gorcunov gorcunov at openvz.org
Wed Dec 12 09:17:36 EST 2012


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 06:14:23PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 06:04 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:47:29PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >>> +#define X86_FEATURE_MTRR		(0*32+12) /* Memory Type Range Registers */
> >>> +#define X86_FEATURE_PGE			(0*32+13) /* Page Global Enable */
> >>> +#define X86_FEATURE_MCA			(0*32+14) /* Machine Check Architecture */
> >>> +#define X86_FEATURE_CMOV		(0*32+15) /* CMOV instructions */
> >>> +						  /* (plus FCMOVcc, FCOMI with FPU) */
> >>
> >> Why do we need all this crap, while we use only 3 of them?
> > 
> > These are common bits and I don't know which else we might need in near
> > future. Keeping the whole cpuid infrastructure close to one implemented
> > in kernel is certainly a win.
> 
> I believe it's not, at least now. Plz, trim this stuff, OK?

Sure, as you wish ;)

	Cyrill


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