linux-kernel - Re: [NEEDS-REVIEW] [PATCH v15 03/26] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce CET MSR XSAVES supervisor states

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Date:   Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:12:53 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
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Subject: Re: [NEEDS-REVIEW] [PATCH v15 03/26] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce CET
 MSR XSAVES supervisor states

On 11/30/20 10:06 AM, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:
>>> +            if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK) &&
>>> +                !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBT))
>>> +                xfeatures_mask_all &= ~BIT_ULL(i);
>>> +        } else {
>>> +            if ((xsave_cpuid_features[i] == -1) ||
>>
>> Where did the -1 come from?  Was that introduced earlier in this series?
>>   I don't see any way a xsave_cpuid_features[] can be -1 in the
>> current tree.
> 
> Yes, we used to have a hole in xsave_cpuid_features[] and put -1 there.
> Do we want to keep this in case we again have holes in the future?

So, it's dead code for the moment and it's impossible to tell what -1
means without looking at git history?  That seems, um, suboptimal.

Shouldn't we have:

#define XFEATURE_NO_DEP -1

?

And then this code becomes:

	if ((xsave_cpuid_features[i] == XFEATURE_NO_DEP))
		// skip it...

We can even put a comment in xsave_cpuid_features[] to tell folks to use
it.