Re: [patch V5 00/14] MDS basics 0

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, speck for Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That looks better to me.
> 
> If I had my choice, I'd get rid of the "FAM6" thing entirely from the
> intel enumerations, but that's an independent thing

Is on that ever growing todo list thingy already.

> Although when I look at this, we actually already have a helper macro
> for the Intel case, and you could do
> 
>     INTEL_CPU_FAM6(ATOM_SALTWELL, NO_SPECULATION),
>     INTEL_CPU_FAM6(ATOM_SALTWELL_TABLET,   NO_SPECULATION),
>     ...
> 
> using the existing INTEL_CPU_FAM6() helper macro.
> 
> It's clearly not the first case people looked at those nasty model
> definitions and went "ugh. that's illegible".

Yes, but then I end up with two different macros in that table, which
is not helping readability either.

Thanks,

	tglx