linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 16/16] x86/mtrr: simplify mtrr

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Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2022 10:48:10 +0100
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 16/16] x86/mtrr: simplify mtrr_ops initialization

On 30.10.22 17:39, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 04:05:29PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> As the specific ops variables are available for X86_32 only, this
>> would require to add an "#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32" around the code block
>> doing the assignments. Otherwise the build would fail.
> 
> Well, it looks like my compiler is smart enough and eliminates all that
> dead code, see diff below.
> 
> I have the suspicion, though, that clang might not be that smart.

Hmm, with the cpu_feature_enabled() implementation it should be quite
obvious that this is all dead code.

I'm going with dropping the vendor_mtrr_ops() macro for now.


Juergen

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