[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 1/2] more sampling fun 1

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 02:11:02PM -0800, speck for mark gross wrote:
> From: mark gross <[email protected]>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add capability to specify a range of steppings in the
> 
> Intel has produced processors with the same CPUID family+model. Code
> may need to check the stepping when programming model specific behavior.
> 
> Add an API to allow easy specification of stepping or range of steppings
> with a 16 bit bitmask.
> 
> Update cpu_vuln_whitelist using this new API.
> 
> I implemented this in the way I did to avoid modifying x86_cpu_id as
> that structure is an exported ABI and any change would impact user mode
> code using the structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: mark gross <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: tony luck <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_device_id.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c         | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/match.c          | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Why isn't this sent to lkml like a normal patch?

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