linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: remove unused macros

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Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:26 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@...el.com>,
        Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: remove unused macros

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 04:50:11PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> NR_VALID_PKRU_BITS/PKRU_VALID_MASK are never used after it was
> introduced. So better to remove them.

Dave moved them in so while they are not used indeed better to
get approve from him (to be sure they were not reserved for
future development).

Initial commit 8459429693395ca9e8d18101300b120ad9171795