Re: [PATCH 03/12] x86/mm: add X86_FEATURE_INVLPGB definition.

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jan 03 2025 - 16:07:49 EST


On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 01:27:41PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> I still see dozens of flags in /proc/cpuinfo here on
> 6.11.

We can't remove those flags because they're an ABI.

> When did that change?

This should explain: Documentation/arch/x86/cpuinfo.rst

> I'm not convinced things will be more readable if 4
> patches get squashed down into one.

Not 4 patches - you merge this one with patch 6 - the first patch that uses
the flag.

Thx.

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