linux-kernel - [patch V4 11/41] x86/cpu: Remove pointless evaluation of x86_coreid

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Message-ID: <20230814085112.687588373@linutronix.de>
Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:53:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@....com>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Pu Wen <puwen@...on.cn>,
        Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>,
        Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>
Subject: [patch V4 11/41] x86/cpu: Remove pointless evaluation of
 x86_coreid_bits

cpuinfo_x86::x86_coreid_bits is only used by the AMD numa topology code. No
point in evaluating it on non AMD systems.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c   |   13 -------------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/zhaoxin.c |   14 --------------
 2 files changed, 27 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -488,19 +488,6 @@ static void early_init_intel(struct cpui
 		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PGE);
 	}
 
-	if (c->cpuid_level >= 0x00000001) {
-		u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
-
-		cpuid(0x00000001, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
-		/*
-		 * If HTT (EDX[28]) is set EBX[16:23] contain the number of
-		 * apicids which are reserved per package. Store the resulting
-		 * shift value for the package management code.
-		 */
-		if (edx & (1U << 28))
-			c->x86_coreid_bits = get_count_order((ebx >> 16) & 0xff);
-	}
-
 	check_memory_type_self_snoop_errata(c);
 
 	/*
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/zhaoxin.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/zhaoxin.c
@@ -65,20 +65,6 @@ static void early_init_zhaoxin(struct cp
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC);
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC);
 	}
-
-	if (c->cpuid_level >= 0x00000001) {
-		u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
-
-		cpuid(0x00000001, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
-		/*
-		 * If HTT (EDX[28]) is set EBX[16:23] contain the number of
-		 * apicids which are reserved per package. Store the resulting
-		 * shift value for the package management code.
-		 */
-		if (edx & (1U << 28))
-			c->x86_coreid_bits = get_count_order((ebx >> 16) & 0xff);
-	}
-
 }
 
 static void init_zhaoxin(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)