linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/setup: Clarify a comment

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Message-ID: <20170928074108.yvwuoso7xi7qycfb@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:41:08 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/setup: Clarify a comment


* Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de> wrote:

> It's not obvious to everybody that BP stands for boot processor. At
> least it was not for me.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- linux-4.14-rc1.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c	2017-09-17 00:47:51.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-4.14-rc1/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c	2017-09-19 14:28:30.553830299 +0200
> @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * VMware detection requires dmi to be available, so this
> -	 * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the BP.
> +	 * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the boot processor.
>  	 */
>  	init_hypervisor_platform();

Ok, I agree with this change - but there's a couple of other references to 'BP' in 
the x86 code, if then we should change all of them over to 'boot CPU'.

Also, while at it, please change 'dmi_scan_machine' to 'dmi_scan_machine()', which 
is the canonical way to refer to function calls.

Thanks,

	Ingo