Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jun 18 2014 - 05:57:47 EST


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:44:09PM +0800, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> In order to do performance optimization, this patch adds macro
> cpu_has_mpx which will directly return 0 when MPX is not supported
> by kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 6 ++++++
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index e265ff9..f302d08 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -339,6 +339,12 @@ extern const char * const x86_power_flags[32];
> #define cpu_has_eager_fpu boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU)
> #define cpu_has_topoext boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TOPOEXT)
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MPX
> +#define cpu_has_mpx boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MPX)

I think we don't want those macros anymore because they're obfuscating
the code. You should use static_cpu_has instead.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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