linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86: axe the lightly-used cpu_has

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Message-ID: <20140702191912.GJ1318@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2014 21:19:12 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, qiaowei.ren@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86: axe the lightly-used cpu_has_pae

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:29:26AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> cpu_has_pae is only referenced in one place: the X86_32 kexec
> code (in a file not even built on 64-bit).  It hardly warrants
> its own macro, or the trouble we go to ensuring that it can't
> be called in X86_64 code.
> 
> Axe the macro and replace it with a direct cpu feature check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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