On 09/03/2010 12:27 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
The AMD SSE5 feature set as-it has been replaced by some extensions to the AVX instruction set. Thus the bit formerly advertised as SSE5 is re-used for one of these extensions (XOP). Although this changes the /proc/cpuinfo output, it is not user visible, as there are no CPUs (yet) having this feature. To avoid confusion this should be added to the stable series, too. diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h index 781a50b..c9c73d8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ #define X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH (6*32+ 8) /* 3DNow prefetch instructions */ #define X86_FEATURE_OSVW (6*32+ 9) /* OS Visible Workaround */ #define X86_FEATURE_IBS (6*32+10) /* Instruction Based Sampling */ -#define X86_FEATURE_SSE5 (6*32+11) /* SSE-5 */ +#define X86_FEATURE_XOP (6*32+11) /* extended AVX instructions */ #define X86_FEATURE_SKINIT (6*32+12) /* SKINIT/STGI instructions */ #define X86_FEATURE_WDT (6*32+13) /* Watchdog timer */ #define X86_FEATURE_NODEID_MSR (6*32+19) /* NodeId MSR */
Even with the -stable update, there may be distributions which have kernels with the old name. That means userspace would need to look for both names if it wants to be sure.
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