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Leaf 0x2 output includes a "query count" byte where it was supposed to
specify the number of repeated CPUID leaf 0x2 subleaf 0 queries needed to
extract all of the CPU's cache and TLB descriptors.
Per current Intel manuals, all CPUs supporting this leaf "will always"
return an iteration count of 1.
Remove the leaf 0x2 query loop and just query the hardware once.
Note, as previously done in:
aec28d852ed2 ("x86/cpuid: Standardize on u32 in <asm/cpuid/api.h>")
standardize on using 'u32' and 'u8' types.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250324133324.23458-2-darwi@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.