linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] x86/sme: Replace occurrences of sme_active() with cc_platform

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Date:   Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:52:07 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
        Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] x86/sme: Replace occurrences of sme_active() with
 cc_platform_has()

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 05:30:15PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Not fine, but waiting to blowup with random build environment change.

Why is it not fine?

Are you suspecting that the compiler might generate something else and
not a rip-relative access?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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