On 09/03/2010 12:27 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
The AMD SSE5 feature set as-it has been replaced by some extensions
to the AVX instruction set. Thus the bit formerly advertised as SSE5
is re-used for one of these extensions (XOP).
Although this changes the /proc/cpuinfo output, it is not user visible, as
there are no CPUs (yet) having this feature.
To avoid confusion this should be added to the stable series, too.
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 781a50b..c9c73d8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH (6*32+ 8) /* 3DNow prefetch instructions */
#define X86_FEATURE_OSVW (6*32+ 9) /* OS Visible Workaround */
#define X86_FEATURE_IBS (6*32+10) /* Instruction Based Sampling
*/
-#define X86_FEATURE_SSE5 (6*32+11) /* SSE-5 */
+#define X86_FEATURE_XOP (6*32+11) /* extended AVX instructions
*/
#define X86_FEATURE_SKINIT (6*32+12) /* SKINIT/STGI instructions */
#define X86_FEATURE_WDT (6*32+13) /* Watchdog timer */
#define X86_FEATURE_NODEID_MSR (6*32+19) /* NodeId MSR */
Even with the -stable update, there may be distributions which have
kernels with the old name. That means userspace would need to look for
both names if it wants to be sure.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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