Re: [PATCH 10/11] x86: Remove unnecessary ifdefs from i387 code.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Aug 30 2010 - 01:44:49 EST


Hi Brian,

On 8/30/10 2:38 AM, Brian Gerst wrote:
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Pekka Enberg<penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Brian Gerst<brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Remove ifdefs for code that the compiler can optimize away on 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst<brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
@@ -74,10 +74,8 @@ static void __cpuinit init_thread_xstate(void)

if (cpu_has_fxsr)
xstate_size = sizeof(struct i387_fxsave_struct);
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
else
xstate_size = sizeof(struct i387_fsave_struct);
-#endif
}
I guess this is OK but keep in mind that cpu_has_fsxr is _not_
optimized by the compiler on 64-bit so the change probably increases
kernel text by few bytes.
FXSR is a required feature on 64-bit, therefore cpu_has_fxsr is always true.
Yes, I realize that but it will still read boot_cpu_data at runtime, no?

Pekka
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