[PATCH 24/24] x86: Remove FAST_FEATURE_TESTS

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 24/24] x86: Remove FAST_FEATURE_TESTS
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:26:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180123152639.401695430@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20180123152539.374360046@infradead.org

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Since we want to rely on static branches to avoid speculation, remove
any possible fallback code for static_cpu_has.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig                  |   11 -----------
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h |    8 --------
 2 files changed, 19 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -389,17 +389,6 @@ config X86_FEATURE_NAMES
 
 	  If in doubt, say Y.
 
-config X86_FAST_FEATURE_TESTS
-	bool "Fast CPU feature tests" if EMBEDDED
-	default y
-	---help---
-	  Some fast-paths in the kernel depend on the capabilities of the CPU.
-	  Say Y here for the kernel to patch in the appropriate code at runtime
-	  based on the capabilities of the CPU. The infrastructure for patching
-	  code at runtime takes up some additional space; space-constrained
-	  embedded systems may wish to say N here to produce smaller, slightly
-	  slower code.
-
 config X86_X2APIC
 	bool "Support x2apic"
 	depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ extern void clear_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo
 
 #define setup_force_cpu_bug(bit) setup_force_cpu_cap(bit)
 
-#if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) && defined(CONFIG_X86_FAST_FEATURE_TESTS)
 /*
  * Static testing of CPU features.  Used the same as boot_cpu_has().
  * These will statically patch the target code for additional
@@ -196,13 +195,6 @@ static __always_inline __pure bool _stat
 		boot_cpu_has(bit) :				\
 		_static_cpu_has(bit)				\
 )
-#else
-/*
- * Fall back to dynamic for gcc versions which don't support asm goto. Should be
- * a minority now anyway.
- */
-#define static_cpu_has(bit)		boot_cpu_has(bit)
-#endif
 
 #define cpu_has_bug(c, bit)		cpu_has(c, (bit))
 #define set_cpu_bug(c, bit)		set_cpu_cap(c, (bit))
