Re: [PATCH v12 0/4] x86: Capability bits fix and required bits sanity check

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 03:10:39PM +0000, Maciej Wieczor-Retman wrote:
> Series aims to fix the inconsistency between the cpuinfo behavior and
> the documentation. Specifically the features that are not compiled are
> still present in the cpuinfo bitmasks as enabled. This is not in line
> with the documentation which specifies that not-compiled features are
> not present in /proc/cpuinfo.

So, I just realized (yah, I am slow).

So Ahmed's patchset 

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260327021645.555257-1-darwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

already has all the information in order to achieve what this has been trying
and more. I.e., it has all CPUID bit names and so on.

So I'd suggest we concentrate all our efforts on reviewing Ahmed's pile and if
then more functionality is needed, we can put it ontop.

Because this is simply duplicating effort and we will end up replacing this
eventually so it is all wasted effort.

So let's please concentrate all our energy there.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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