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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:25:22 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: remove redundant cpu_has_ definitions

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:04:54AM -0500, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Unnecessary.  These overrides are only needed for the anticases (known to 
> be zero) or for some special hacks.
>

Cool, guess that means a bunch of them can go...

> Stuff that have proper CPUID bits get these defined as constants via the  
> REQUIRED_MASK macros.
>

PSE, PGE, XMM, XMM2, and FXSR are defined as required features, and
will be optimized to a constant at compile time. Remove their redundant
definitions.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>

--- a/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
@@ -195,21 +195,6 @@
 #undef  cpu_has_centaur_mcr
 #define cpu_has_centaur_mcr	0
 
-#undef  cpu_has_pse
-#define cpu_has_pse		1
-
-#undef  cpu_has_pge
-#define cpu_has_pge		1
-
-#undef  cpu_has_xmm
-#define cpu_has_xmm		1
-
-#undef  cpu_has_xmm2
-#define cpu_has_xmm2		1
-
-#undef  cpu_has_fxsr
-#define cpu_has_fxsr		1
-
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_CPUFEATURE_H */
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