linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/pt: Use boot_cpu

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Date:	Wed,  6 Apr 2016 17:35:07 +0300
From:	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	vince@...ter.net, eranian@...gle.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/pt: Use boot_cpu_has() because it's there

At the moment, initialization path is using test_cpu_cap(&boot_cpu_data),
to detect PT, which is just open coding boot_cpu_has(). Use the latter
instead.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c
index 32b613e863..7c7f09a8fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ static __init int pt_init(void)
 
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct topa) > PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	if (!test_cpu_cap(&boot_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_INTEL_PT))
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INTEL_PT))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	get_online_cpus();
-- 
2.8.0.rc3