On 10/5/20 6:15 PM, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 08:27:41PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 10/2/20 6:17 PM, Ricardo Neri wrote:
>>> +/**
>>> + * arch_get_cpu_type() - Get the CPU type number
>>> + * @cpu: Index of the CPU of which the index is needed
>>> + *
>>> + * Get the CPU type number of @cpu, a non-zero unsigned 32-bit number that
>
> Thank you for your feedback Randy!
>
>> Are you sure that @cpu is non-zero?
>
> This is the intent. Maybe it can be reworked to return -EINVAL instead?
> I gues it is plausible but less likely that an arch defines a type as
> 0xffffffea;
You lost me here.
>>
>>> + * uniquely identifies a type of CPU micro-architecture. All CPUs of the
>>> same
>>> + * type have the same type number. Type numbers are defined by each CPU
>>> + * architecture.
>>> + */
>>> +u32 __weak arch_get_cpu_type(int cpu)
>>> +{
>>> + return 0;
>>> +}
>>
>> arch_get_cpu_type() in patch 4/4 allows @cpu to be 0.
>
> It should not return 0 if the system does not have
> X86_FEATURE_HYBRID_CPU. The currently existing CPU types are all
> non-zero as per the Intel SDM. Am I missing anything?
@cpu is a cpu index, not a cpu type.
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~Randy
