Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/cpufeature: Remove unused and seldomly used cpu_has_xx macros

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:45:04AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> > 
> > >  static int __init chacha20_simd_mod_init(void)
> > >  {
> > > -	if (!cpu_has_ssse3)
> > > +	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SSSE3))
> > >  		return -ENODEV;
> > 
> > Btw., could we rename 'boot_cpu_has()' to the more appropriate (and shorter!) 
> > 'system_has()' form?
> > 
> > 'boot cpu' is a conceptual misnomer here really: it's just an implementational 
> > detail that we are looking at the boot CPU's flags, what we really mean to express 
> > is that these are system-wide features with no per-cpu properties.
> > 
> > Agreed?
> 
> Yeah, sounds good to me.
> 
> Mind if I do it for the next part of the cleanup, though, and not rework
> those patches which are already tested?

Sure!

Thanks,

	Ingo