linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86, xsave: some code cleanups and reworks

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:27:17 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86, xsave: some code cleanups and reworks

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 08:50:47PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
>
> This patch series contains some cleanups and reworks I made during
> code review and feature implementation for upcoming cpus.
> 
> Most patches refactor the xsave initialization that is very dependent
> on fpu initialization. This series starts to decouple this a little
> bit as xsave not only supports fpu features. Also this is an attempt
> to ease the xsave interface by making some of the functions and
> variables static.
> 
> There is also one patch that removes boot_cpu_id variable, which is
> not really related to xsave. Maybe this should be applied to another
> branch.
> 
> The patches are relative to today's tip/x86/xsave branch.
> 
> (The patches are small for better review and rebasing.)
> 
> -Robert
> 

Hi Robert, I recall there was a thread related to boot_cpu_id and
cpu = 0. Unfortunately I can't find it neither in my mbox nor somewhere
in net at moment. Ie technically speaking -- yes boot_cpu_id will be 0
but perhaps instead of magic !cpu and friends explicit boot_cpu_id might
be better for code reading. It might be is_boot_cpu() macro helper or
so as well.

Though I don't have strong opinion but for ones who will be
reading the code first time it might be confusing :) Agreed?

	-- Cyrill
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