On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:29 AM, Joerg Roedel <j...@8bytes.org> wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroe...@suse.de>
>
> Warn the user in case the performance can be significantly
> improved by switching to a 64-bit kernel.
...
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID)) {
I'm a bit confused. Wouldn't the setup_clear_cpu_cap() call in
early_identify_cpu() prevent this from working?
Boris, do we have a straightforward way to ask "does the CPU advertise
this feature in CPUID regardless of whether we have it enabled right
now"?
--Andy
