Re: [tip:perf/core] perf/x86/intel: Use Intel family macros for core perf events

[Stephane Eranian]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 06:25:29PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>  model string    : IvyBridge_X
>>
>> ... or something like that. The string could even be auto-generated from the list
>> in intel-family.h?
>
> Yap, that sounds cool too. And then we should issue that too during boot:
>
I like that approach too. It avoids going online to check what
micro-architecture the number maps too.
Yet, I wonder how portable that is.

> [    0.542398] smpboot: CPU0: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (family: 0x15, model: 0x2, stepping: 0x0; Piledriver)
>
> so that we don't need to ask for dmesg *and* /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> Hohumm, this should be very useful.
>
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>     Boris.
>
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