Re: [PATCH] x86: limit mwait_idle to Intel CPUs

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> It is not equivalent. Usually users check /proc/cpuinfo for their
> CPU features. Deleting that flag is kind of obfuscation.
>
> I guess some time ago people did not care about their "svm" or "vmx"
> flags. Nowadays (e.g. with kvm) some people are quite happy
> if one of those strings occurs in /proc/cpuinfo (and they are quite
> disappointed if this feature was disabled by BIOS).

What you're saying is that you want it to appear in /proc/cpuinfo for 
marketing reasons even though it's not usable.

The ones in /proc/cpuinfo are cooked values anyway; there is plenty of 
history to that effect.

I would agree with Andi that if as far as Linux is concerned mwait is 
unusable on AMD Fam10 processors, then the CPU detection code should 
turn this bit off on AMD Fam10 processors.

	-hpa

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