linux-kernel - Re: [patch v5 01/19] x86/cpu: Provide cpuid

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Message-ID: <87le7plr9t.ffs@tglx>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:57:02 +0100
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org, Tom Lendacky
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Subject: Re: [patch v5 01/19] x86/cpu: Provide cpuid_read() et al.

On Wed, Jan 24 2024 at 21:02, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 01:25:12PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> > +static inline void __cpuid_read_reg(unsigned int leaf, unsigned int subleaf,
>> > +				    enum cpuid_regs_idx regidx, u32 *reg)
>> > +{
>> > +	u32 regs[4];
>> > +
>> > +	__cpuid_read(leaf, subleaf, regs);
>> > +	*reg = regs[regidx];
>> 
>> Why not do
>> 
>> 	return regs[regidx];
>> 
>> instead?
>
> Or do you really want to be able to use anonymous structs with bitfields
> in them and then convert them to a u32 * when passing in to
> cpuid_leaf_reg() etc in order to save yourself all the masking and
> shifting and read out the bitfields directly?
>
> I'm looking at the parse_topology() use case.
>
> Looks like it...

Yes, that's the idea.