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Date:   Sat, 3 Oct 2020 15:44:29 -0400
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc:     Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] efi/libstub/x86: simplify efi_is_native()

On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 01:28:18PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 2:05 AM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de> wrote:
> >
> > CONFIG_EFI_MIXED depends on CONFIG_X86_64=y.
> > There is no need to check CONFIG_X86_64 again.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > index b9c2667ac46c..ab28bf1c74cf 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > @@ -223,8 +223,6 @@ static inline bool efi_is_64bit(void)
> >
> >  static inline bool efi_is_native(void)
> >  {
> > -       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64))
> > -               return true;
> >         return efi_is_64bit();
> >  }
> 
> This would then return false for native 32-bit.
> 
> --
> Brian Gerst

32-bit doesn't use this implementation: it's #define'd to true in
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h.

Thanks.