Re: [PATCH 3/10] I386 mcheck p4 grotesque and needless warning fix.patch

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Tue Apr 10 2007 - 10:36:53 EST


On 10/04/07, Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, just no. You do not use goto to skip a code block. You do not
return an obvious variable from a singly-inlined function and give
the function a return value. You don't put unexplained comments
about kmalloc in code which doesn't do dynamic allocation. And
you don't leave stray warnings around for no good reason.

Also, when possible, it is better to use block scoped variables
because gcc can sometime generate better code.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r ed741f57dae8 arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c Fri Apr 06 14:29:52 2007 -0700
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c Fri Apr 06 14:43:24 2007 -0700
[...]
static fastcall void intel_machine_check(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
@@ -155,7 +146,6 @@ static fastcall void intel_machine_check
u32 alow, ahigh, high, low;
u32 mcgstl, mcgsth;
int i;
- struct intel_mce_extended_msrs dbg;

rdmsr (MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS, mcgstl, mcgsth);
if (mcgstl & (1<<0)) /* Recoverable ? */
@@ -164,7 +154,9 @@ static fastcall void intel_machine_check
printk (KERN_EMERG "CPU %d: Machine Check Exception: %08x%08x\n",
smp_processor_id(), mcgsth, mcgstl);

- if (intel_get_extended_msrs(&dbg)) {
+ if (mce_num_extended_msrs > 0) {
+ struct intel_mce_extended_msrs dbg;

shouldn't there be a blank line here?

+ intel_get_extended_msrs(&dbg);
printk (KERN_DEBUG "CPU %d: EIP: %08x EFLAGS: %08x\n",
smp_processor_id(), dbg.eip, dbg.eflags);
printk (KERN_DEBUG "\teax: %08x ebx: %08x ecx: %08x edx: %08x\n",


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