Re: [PATCH] x86/xen: simplify sysenter and syscall setup

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Oct 20 2022 - 07:39:29 EST


On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 01:36:19PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> xen_enable_sysenter() and xen_enable_syscall() can be simplified a lot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 23 ++++++-----------------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> index cfa99e8f054b..0f33ed6d3a7b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> @@ -910,17 +910,9 @@ static int register_callback(unsigned type, const void *func)
>
> void xen_enable_sysenter(void)
> {
> - int ret;
> - unsigned sysenter_feature;
> -
> - sysenter_feature = X86_FEATURE_SYSENTER32;
> -
> - if (!boot_cpu_has(sysenter_feature))
> - return;
> -
> - ret = register_callback(CALLBACKTYPE_sysenter, xen_entry_SYSENTER_compat);
> - if(ret != 0)
> - setup_clear_cpu_cap(sysenter_feature);
> + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SYSENTER32) &&

Can you switch that and below to cpu_feature_enabled() while at it, pls?

> + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SYSCALL32) &&
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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