Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 06/19/2014 11:50 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 06/19/2014 11:02 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 06/18/2014 09:25 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>> How about something like the attached patch?
>>>
>>> This lets us use static_cpu_has() for the checks, and allows us to
>>> easily add new checks for other features that might be compile-time
>>> disabled.
>>
>> Hmm... I would like something similar to required-features.h which
>> reflect features which *cannot* be enabled or will always be ignored; we
>> actually already have a handful of those
> 
> Could you elaborate a bit?  I'll try and include them in the approach to
> make sure it works broadly.
> 
> Is there a benefit to the required-features.h approach that's missing
> from mine?  I _believe_ all of the compiler optimization around
> __builtin_constant_p() continues to work with the inline function
> instead of the #defines and bitmasks.  I think the inline function
> approach is a bit easier to work with.
> 
> Could the required-features.h approach just be from a time before
> __builtin_constant_p() worked well across inlines?
> 

Not so much.  What I don't want is one approach for doing things in one
direction and another approach for the other direction.

	-hpa