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Message-ID: <20151222170714.GD3961@pd.tnic>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:07:14 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc: mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/ucode: replace redundant string literals
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:40:43AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This doesn't just eliminate needless redundancy
> (plus avoid a possible disconnect if one string instance gets changed
> without the other(s)),
This argument is bogus. We will never ever change a user-visible command
line option. Ever.
> but also eliminates a warning some gcc versions emit ("array access
> beyond array bounds", observed with 4.3.4) in the 32-bit case.
Now that I'm interested in - how exactly do you trigger this? gcc
version, etc?
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --- 4.4-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> +++ 4.4-rc6-x86-ucode-early-string/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> @@ -83,13 +83,11 @@ static bool __init check_loader_disabled
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> const char *cmdline = (const char *)__pa_nodebug(boot_command_line);
> - const char *opt = "dis_ucode_ldr";
> - const char *option = (const char *)__pa_nodebug(opt);
> + const char *option = (const char *)__pa_nodebug(__setup_str_disable_loader);
> bool *res = (bool *)__pa_nodebug(&dis_ucode_ldr);
> -
> #else /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
> const char *cmdline = boot_command_line;
> - const char *option = "dis_ucode_ldr";
> + const char *option = __setup_str_disable_loader;
> bool *res = &dis_ucode_ldr;
> #endif
I don't like it: it is not clear at a glance that this __setup_str*
magic gets generated from the __setup macro. In addition, this code is
as unreadable as it is now - your patch makes it even more cryptic.
I much prefer the redundancy.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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