Re: [discuss] [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: add reporting of SVM flags to /proc/cpuinfo

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Mar 05 2007 - 11:00:01 EST


On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:25:31PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 15:39, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch adds the advanced SVM reporting to /proc/cpuinfo on the x86_64
> > architecture.
>
> Adding more fields to /proc/cpuinfo is always somewhat risky because
> there are lots of badly written parsers for it.
>
> I considered adding the SVM fields myself, but decided against it because
> it didn't seem generally useful enough.

Agreed. I'm more than happy to take patches to x86info however :)

Dave

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