linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/cpufeature: Remove static_cpu

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:04:02 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/cpufeature: Remove static_cpu_has()

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
>
> Well, this one doesn't work properly before alternatives have run. And
> it was supposed to provide an optimized JMP because the assumption was
> that the offset it is jumping to is within a signed byte and thus a
> two-byte JMP.
>

Looks good except for the subject line -- you didn't actually remove
static_cpu_has :)

--Andy