Re: A question about prefetchw detection in "x86/asm: Cleanup prefetch primitives"

[Xi Ruoyao]

On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 14:57 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 08:04:39PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> > Hmm, while it's true for AMD, the Intel SDM claims otherwise.  It
> > says
> > prefetchw is only (really) supported with "Intel® Core™ M processor
> > family; 5th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family, Intel Atom
> > processor based on Silvermont microarchitecture" or later.  On the
> > earlier Intel CPUs supporting LM, the prefetchw instruction is
> > treated
> > as NOP.
> 
> And this is a problem because?

I think it's not an issue in the kernel itself, but announcing
3dnowprefetch in /proc/cpuinfo for an old Intel CPU w/o real prefetchw
implementation seems problematic (to me).
> 

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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxx>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University