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Re: x86/include/cacheinfo.h



I'm not familiar with x86 either, but quickly looked at the manual.
The patch looks correct.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Christos Zoulas 
<christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> In article <51E62CAD.5030709%execsw.org@localhost>,
> Masanobu SAITOH  <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost> wrote:
>> While I'm checking Intel's document, I found some bugs in cacheinfo.h.
>>The file includes INTEL_CACHE_INFO macro. The values in the macro are
>>described in "Table 3-22 Encoding of CPUID Leaf 2 Descriptors, Intel 64
>>and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Vol. 2A."
>>
>> For the entry of 0x0d, cai_linesize is wrong but the value is not
>>used in kernel if my understanding is correct.
>>
>> For the entry of 0xeb, cai_totalsize is wrong and the value is used
>>for the page coloring. Does this bug cause a serious problem?
>>
>> I'm sorry that I'm not familiar with x86 :(
>
> I don't know, but file a PR so that it does not get lost!
>
> christos
>


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