Re: [tip:x86/cpu] x86, cpu: AMD errata checking framework

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/08/2010 07:18 AM, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> 
> Thats exactly the kind of thing I wanted to avoid. This means carrying
> around all errata definitions in memory all the time instead of just
> when theres actually code thats using them.
> 

On a note on that... by passing the definition as arguments you're doing
it asas *code*, which is seriously bloated over a memory structure.  The
size of memory structures should be insignificant, and would be cold in
memory anyway.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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