Re: 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Pavel Machek 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.

And while you are at it, why don't you send a patch which makes this
all go away instead of wasting time producing pseudo code?

Thanks,

	tglx
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