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commit a23039c7306f53416ba35d230201398ea34f4640 upstream. Some selftests depend on information provided by the CPUID instruction. To support this dependency the selftests implement private wrappers for CPUID. Duplication of the CPUID wrappers should be avoided. Both gcc and clang/LLVM provide __cpuid_count() macros but neither the macro nor its header file are available in all the compiler versions that need to be supported by the selftests. __cpuid_count() as provided by gcc is available starting with gcc v4.4, so it is not available if the latest tests need to be run in all the environments required to support kernels v4.9 and v4.14 that have the minimal required gcc v3.2. Duplicate gcc's __cpuid_count() macro to provide a centrally defined macro for __cpuid_count() to help eliminate the duplicate CPUID wrappers while continuing to compile in older environments. Suggested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.