linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu/intel: Drop stray FAM6 check with new Intel CPU model defines

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 20:02:06 +0100
From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, "Hansen, Dave"
 <dave.hansen@...el.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
 "Schofield, Alison" <alison.schofield@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu/intel: Drop stray FAM6 check with new Intel CPU
 model defines

On 29/05/2024 7:59 pm, Luck, Tony wrote:
>>> The outer if () should have been dropped when switching to c->x86_vfm.
>> FWIW, we are going to need to do a pass over all of arch/x86 looking for
>> these.  I suspect many of the 'if (c->x86 == ...) ' checks can go away
>> like this one.
>>
>> Thanks for finding this one, though!
> Yup.
>
> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

Thanks.  FWIW, none of the other uses of c->x86 I looked at seem trivial
to convert.

This one I only happened to notice because it stood out in context.

~Andrew