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Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:15:11 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, fenghua.yu@...el.com,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
	bp@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] x86: axe the lightly-used cpu_has_pae


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>
---

 b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h  |    4 ----
 b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h~x86-axe-cpu_has_pae arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h~x86-axe-cpu_has_pae	2014-08-13 13:39:06.903716185 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h	2014-08-13 13:39:19.610291207 -0700
@@ -300,7 +300,6 @@ extern const char * const x86_bug_flags[
 #define cpu_has_de		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_DE)
 #define cpu_has_pse		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PSE)
 #define cpu_has_tsc		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC)
-#define cpu_has_pae		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PAE)
 #define cpu_has_pge		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE)
 #define cpu_has_apic		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APIC)
 #define cpu_has_sep		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEP)
@@ -358,9 +357,6 @@ extern const char * const x86_bug_flags[
 #undef  cpu_has_vme
 #define cpu_has_vme		0
 
-#undef  cpu_has_pae
-#define cpu_has_pae		___BUG___
-
 #undef  cpu_has_k6_mtrr
 #define cpu_has_k6_mtrr		0
 
diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c~x86-axe-cpu_has_pae arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c~x86-axe-cpu_has_pae	2014-08-13 13:39:06.905716275 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c	2014-08-13 13:39:06.937717723 -0700
@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 	/* now call it */
 	image->start = relocate_kernel_ptr((unsigned long)image->head,
 					   (unsigned long)page_list,
-					   image->start, cpu_has_pae,
+					   image->start,
+					   boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PAE),
 					   image->preserve_context);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
_
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