Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] x86/microcode/AMD: automatically compute the PATCH_MAX_SIZE macro

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 01:05:14AM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> Unfortunately, this does not work:
> > ./include/linux/kernel.h:806:41: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> >  #define __max(t1, t2, max1, max2, x, y) ({  \

Ok, let's drop this line then. It is simply too much monkey business
just to end up with max size of 4K which is F15H_MPB_MAX_SIZE,
coincidentally.

Just put a comment in verify_patch_size() stating that PATCH_MAX_SIZE
needs to be adjusted when a bigger per-family patch size gets added.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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