* Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:45:04AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > static int __init chacha20_simd_mod_init(void)
> > > {
> > > - if (!cpu_has_ssse3)
> > > + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SSSE3))
> > > return -ENODEV;
> >
> > Btw., could we rename 'boot_cpu_has()' to the more appropriate (and
> > shorter!)
> > 'system_has()' form?
> >
> > 'boot cpu' is a conceptual misnomer here really: it's just an
> > implementational
> > detail that we are looking at the boot CPU's flags, what we really mean to
> > express
> > is that these are system-wide features with no per-cpu properties.
> >
> > Agreed?
>
> Yeah, sounds good to me.
>
> Mind if I do it for the next part of the cleanup, though, and not rework
> those patches which are already tested?
Sure!
Thanks,
Ingo
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