Re: [PATCH] x86: efi: avoid BUILD_BUG_ON() for non-constant p4d_index

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> That's how build-time assertions work: they are _supposed_ to be
> optimized away completely when the assertion is true. If they're
> _not_ optimized away, the build will fail.

Yah, that I know, thanks.

If gcc really inlines p4d_index() and does a lot more aggressive
optimization to determine that the condition is false and thus optimize
everything away (and clang doesn't), then that would explain the
observation.

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