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kern/38705: Unnecessary duplication of kernel code in userland



>Number:         38705
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Duplication of i386 CPU identification data
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 20 13:55:00 +0000 2008
>Originator:     Paul Goyette
>Release:        NetBSD 4.99.62
>Organization:
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>Environment:
        
        
System: NetBSD quicky.whooppee.com 4.99.62 NetBSD 4.99.62 (QUICKY (ASUS M2N32 
WS) 2008-05-14 13:20:42) #1: Wed May 14 06:25:08 PDT 2008 
paul%speedy.whooppee.com@localhost:/build/obj/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/QUICKY
 amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
Various definitions and data structures related to CPU identification are 
duplicated in 'src/usr.sbin/cpuctl/arch/i386.c'.  The original source of
the duplicate data is 'src/sys/arch/x86/include/cacheinfo.h' and
'src/sys/arch/x86/x86/identcpu.c'.

        
>How-To-Repeat:
        
>Fix:
Not sure if the correct solution, but the current situation leads to a
serious maintenance/synchronization issue.  Already noted in separate PR
is the discrepancy of AMD cache associativity data (which was updated in
the kernel code but not in cpuctl).
        

>Unformatted:
        
        


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