Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] x86: Add "virt flags"

[Andi Kleen]

Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> But I still have concern, for this may broke some not that reliable userspace
> programs. So Avi suggested that we can add more fields to flags rather than a
> new catagory.


FWIW when I added the "power management:" flags back then for the
64bit kernel I didn't get any reports of user programs breaking. Also
some other fields got added like cpu cores or initial apicid etc. and
that also didn't lead to breakage. So adding new lines to cpuinfo
should be ok.

-Andi
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