Re: [PATCH V2] x86: use enum cpuid_leafs instead of magic numbers

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jan 21 2016 - 16:38:14 EST


On 01/21/16 13:33, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:25:22PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> See X86_CAPABILITY in head_32.S for example.
>
> ... so that you can get rid of the offset games at least for
> CPUINFO_x86_capability in asm-offsets_32.c?
>

No, you still need to be able to find the beginning of the capability
array, but the point is that right now it is implicit in that code that
CPUID_1_EDX == 0.

-hpa