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authorCao Jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>2019-08-28 14:11:00 +0800
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2019-08-28 08:38:39 +0200
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x86/cpufeature: Explain the macro duplication
Explain the intent behind the duplication of the BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(NCAPINTS != n) check in *_MASK_CHECK and its immediate use in the *MASK_BIT_SET macros too. [ bp: Massage. ] Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Cao Jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190828061100.27032-1-caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 58acda503817..59bf91c57aa8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ extern const char * const x86_bug_flags[NBUGINTS*32];
#define CHECK_BIT_IN_MASK_WORD(maskname, word, bit) \
(((bit)>>5)==(word) && (1UL<<((bit)&31) & maskname##word ))
+/*
+ * {REQUIRED,DISABLED}_MASK_CHECK below may seem duplicated with the
+ * following BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO() check but when NCAPINTS gets changed, all
+ * header macros which use NCAPINTS need to be changed. The duplicated macro
+ * use causes the compiler to issue errors for all headers so that all usage
+ * sites can be corrected.
+ */
#define REQUIRED_MASK_BIT_SET(feature_bit) \
( CHECK_BIT_IN_MASK_WORD(REQUIRED_MASK, 0, feature_bit) || \
CHECK_BIT_IN_MASK_WORD(REQUIRED_MASK, 1, feature_bit) || \