On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 05:11:20PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Currently setup_clear_cpu_cap passes NULL 'struct cpuinfo_x86*'
> to clear_cpu_cap to indicate that capability should be cleared from boot_cpu_data.
>
> Later that is used in clear_feature to do recursive call to
> clear_cpu_cap together with clearing the feature bit from 'cpu_caps_cleared'
>
> Remove that code and just call the do_clear_cpu_cap on boot_cpu_data directly
> from the setup_clear_cpu_cap.
>
> The only functional change this introduces is that now calling clear_cpu_cap
> explicitly on boot_cpu_data also sets the bits in cpu_caps_cleared,
> which is the only thing that makes sense anyway.
>
> All callers of both functions were checked for this and fixed.
Change looks ok. What I can't grok is this sentence: what was checked
and fixed where?
What does need fixing and why?
Thx.
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