From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>,
Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>, Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>,
Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
Wei Jiangang <weijg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: squash lines for simple wrapper functions
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 06:35:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160910043533.GB6061@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609091639020.5679@nanos>
* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
> > > static unsigned long set_apic_id(unsigned int id)
> > > {
> > > - unsigned long x;
> > > -
> > > /* maskout x2apic_extra_bits ? */
> > > - x = id;
> > > - return x;
> > > + return id;
> > > }
> >
> > This was clearly left there to document a quirk and as a placeholder for future
> > changes.
>
> Keeping the comment and rewording it to:
>
> /* CHECKME: Do we need to mask out the xapic extra bits */
>
> should be good enough. The variable dance is not really giving any value.
Yeah, sure - my point was that the mindless removal is wrong.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-10 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-06 11:24 [PATCH] x86: squash lines for simple wrapper functions Masahiro Yamada
2016-09-08 6:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-09-09 14:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-09-10 4:35 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-09-10 5:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-09-10 9:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-09-10 9:30 ` Masahiro Yamada
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