linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: Support compiling out human-friendly processor feature names

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Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:18:14 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@....fi>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: Support compiling out human-friendly processor feature names



On February 22, 2014 1:00:39 PM PST, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 09:49:36PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:57:10AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c b/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
>> > index 6ec6bb6..29207f6 100644
>> > --- a/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
>> > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
>> > @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
>> >   */
>> >  
>> >  #include "boot.h"
>> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_FEATURE_NAMES
>> >  #include "cpustr.h"
>> > +#endif
>> 
>> You probably could get rid of this ifdef too by moving it into
>cpustr.h
>> after teaching arch/x86/boot/mkcpustr.c to issue it...
>
>That would require building and running mkcpustr, which doesn't happen
>when !CONFIG_X86_FEATURE_NAMES.  (And it'd require adding ifdefs to
>mkcpustr instead, which seems counterproductive.)
>

Didn't that change since v1?

>However, in exploring this, I ran into some build issues with v2 on a
>clean build; I'll send out v3 shortly with fixes to those.
>
>- Josh Triplett

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