Re: 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed May 07 2008 - 18:41:35 EST


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 2008-05-07 15:22:37, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 3) copy&paste code remained in the patch
> >
> > i thought to keep the stub so could add more other stuff in the switch
> > like 64 bit
>
> This is _not_ good enough reason to copy&paste. Just do it like this:
>
>
> > switch (c->x86_vendor) {
> > case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
> > early_init_amd(c);
>
> > break;
> > case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
> > early_init_intel(c);
>
> > break;
> > case X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR:
> > early_init_centaur(c);
> > break;
> > }
>
> # clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT);
>
> #
> # switch (c->x86_vendor) {
> # case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
> # if (c->x86 >= 0xf && c->x86 <= 0x11)
>
> # set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT);
> # break;
> # case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
> # if (c->x86 == 0xF || (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model >= 15))
>
> # set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT);
> # break;
> # }
>
> And then, factor out code marked # into separate function, and call it
> from all three places.

still need two copies or ifdef, otherwise you will check some 32bit
only cpu fam/model in 64bit node.

YH
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