On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> wrote:
> > static unsigned long set_apic_id(unsigned int id)
> > {
> > - unsigned long x;
> > -
> > /* maskout x2apic_extra_bits ? */
> > - x = id;
> > - return x;
> > + return id;
> > }
>
> This was clearly left there to document a quirk and as a placeholder for
> future
> changes.
Keeping the comment and rewording it to:
/* CHECKME: Do we need to mask out the xapic extra bits */
should be good enough. The variable dance is not really giving any value.
Thanks,
tglx