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authorTony Luck <[email protected]>2019-08-15 11:16:24 -0700
committerBorislav Petkov <[email protected]>2019-08-17 10:06:32 +0200
commit12ece2d53d3e8f827e972caf497c165f7729c717 (patch)
tree66dc872515c4974e6200292fb6c3c92a82ff771e
parenta90118c445cc7f07781de26a9684d4ec58bfcfd1 (diff)
x86/cpu: Explain Intel model naming convention
Dave Hansen spelled out the rules in an e-mail: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Copy those right into the <asm/intel-family.h> file to make it easy for people to find them. Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h
index 0278aa66ef62..fe7c205233f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h
@@ -11,6 +11,21 @@
* While adding a new CPUID for a new microarchitecture, add a new
* group to keep logically sorted out in chronological order. Within
* that group keep the CPUID for the variants sorted by model number.
+ *
+ * The defined symbol names have the following form:
+ * INTEL_FAM6{OPTFAMILY}_{MICROARCH}{OPTDIFF}
+ * where:
+ * OPTFAMILY Describes the family of CPUs that this belongs to. Default
+ * is assumed to be "_CORE" (and should be omitted). Other values
+ * currently in use are _ATOM and _XEON_PHI
+ * MICROARCH Is the code name for the micro-architecture for this core.
+ * N.B. Not the platform name.
+ * OPTDIFF If needed, a short string to differentiate by market segment.
+ * Exact strings here will vary over time. _DESKTOP, _MOBILE, and
+ * _X (short for Xeon server) should be used when they are
+ * appropriate.
+ *
+ * The #define line may optionally include a comment including platform names.
*/
#define INTEL_FAM6_CORE_YONAH 0x0E