Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: Avoid endless loop to get the number of cache leaves

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 10:46:54AM +0800, Pu Wen wrote:
> How about define CTYPE_MAX like this:
> #define CTYPE_MAX  4

How about you look at the definition of CPUID leaf 4 and think about it
a bit and realize that this is the wrong thing to do?

> It will return CTYPE_NULL when accessing the 4th CPUID leaf in most of
> the cases, but in certain case it will not.

Well, that's certain cases' problem, isn't it? How about fixing xen
instead?

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    Boris.

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