Re: [PATCH 03/25] um/xor: don't override XOR_SELECT_TEMPLATE

[hch]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 10:45:26PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> > Von: "hch" <hch@xxxxxx>
> > XOR_SELECT_TEMPLATE is only ever called with a NULL argument, so all the
> > ifdef'ery doesn't do anything.  With our without this, the time travel
> > mode should work fine on CPUs that support AVX2, as the AVX2
> > implementation is forced in this case, and won't work otherwise.
> 
> IIRC Johannes added XOR_SELECT_TEMPLATE() here to skip
> the template selection logic because it didn't work with time travel mode.
> 
> Johannes, can you please test whether this change does not break
> time travel mode?

I'm pretty sure that was the intent, but as I wrote above it worked
and still works on AVX-supporting CPUs by chance, and already doesn't
on older CPUs, and unless my git blaming went wrong someewhere already
didn't when this was originally added.