Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/cpu: Inline generic_identify() into identify_cpu()

From: bot+bpf-ci

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 20:48:34 EST


> generic_identify() has exactly one call site: at the top of
> identify_cpu(). Fold it into identify_cpu() so that a single function
> does the job for both the boot CPU and the secondary CPUs.
>
> While at it, fix up both copies of the Cyrix comment.
>
> No functional changes.

This isn't a bug, but since identify_cpu() already covered both the
boot and secondary CPUs before this patch, could the changelog instead
say what the fold enables for the following patches (e.g. making the
init_cpu_info() placement explicit)?


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