[CRIU] [PATCH 4/9] cpuinfo: x86 -- Rework cpuinfo features fetching
Cyrill Gorcunov
gorcunov at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 03:20:29 PDT 2014
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:05:05PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 05:03 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > Instead of parsing procfs lets use native cpuid(), it's a way faster.
> > The dark side is that the kernel may disable some of features via
> > bootline options even if they are present on hardware but for us
> > it's fine -- we will be testing hardware cpu for features anyway.
> >
> > The X86_FEATURE_ bits are gathered from two sources: linux kernel
> > and cpu specifications.
> >
> > Same time drop off cpu_set_feature() helper -- it's unneeded.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov at openvz.org>
>
> Can we split this patch?
> Suggestions to parts:
>
> 1. s/cpu_has/cpu_has_feature/
> 2. Add new bits into asm/cpu.h
> 3. Native cpuid calls code
> 4. The rest
I'll rework.
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