linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/acrn: Remove redundant chars from ACRN signature

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Date:   Thu,  6 Aug 2020 19:41:11 +0800
From:   Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@...el.com>
To:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Yu Wang <yu1.wang@...el.com>,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/acrn: Remove redundant chars from ACRN signature

hypervisor_cpuid_base() only handles 12 chars of the hypervisor
signature string but is provided with 14 chars.

Remove the redundancy. Additionally, replace the user space uint32_t
with preferred kernel type u32.

Signed-off-by: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c
index 3b08cdfc6514..0b2c03943ac6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 #include <asm/idtentry.h>
 #include <asm/irq_regs.h>
 
-static uint32_t __init acrn_detect(void)
+static u32 __init acrn_detect(void)
 {
-	return hypervisor_cpuid_base("ACRNACRNACRN\0\0", 0);
+	return hypervisor_cpuid_base("ACRNACRNACRN", 0);
 }
 
 static void __init acrn_init_platform(void)

base-commit: 48778464bb7d346b47157d21ffde2af6b2d39110
-- 
2.28.0