linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode

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Message-ID: <20121216175722.GA14678@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:57:22 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:	H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Asit K Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces
 for early loading ucode

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 02:43:23AM -0800, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> +#define QCHAR(a, b, c, d) ((a) + ((b) << 8) + ((c) << 16) + ((d) << 24))
> +#define CPUID_INTEL1 QCHAR('G', 'e', 'n', 'u')
> +#define CPUID_INTEL2 QCHAR('i', 'n', 'e', 'I')
> +#define CPUID_INTEL3 QCHAR('n', 't', 'e', 'l')
> +#define CPUID_AMD1 QCHAR('A', 'u', 't', 'h')
> +#define CPUID_AMD2 QCHAR('e', 'n', 't', 'i')
> +#define CPUID_AMD3 QCHAR('c', 'A', 'M', 'D')
> +
> +#define CPUID_IS(a, b, c) (!((ebx ^ (a))|(edx ^ (b))|(ecx ^ (c))))

What, this macro is relying on external variable names and doesn't have
them as its own macro arguments? Why? This is really fragile and very
much prone to errors.

What's wrong with doing:

#define CPUID_IS(a, b, c, ebx, ecx, edx) (!(((ebx) ^ (a))|((edx) ^ (b))|((ecx) ^ (c))))

?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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