Re: [PATCH 11/18] Hibernate: introduced RSA key-pair to verifysignature of snapshot

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Aug 27 2013 - 10:17:32 EST


On Tue 2013-08-27 14:01:42, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, 13:29:43 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > @@ -1205,6 +1290,10 @@ struct boot_params *efi_main(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *_table,
> > > > >
> > > > > setup_efi_pci(boot_params);
> > > > >
> > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SNAPSHOT_VERIFICATION
> > > > > + setup_s4_keys(boot_params);
> > > > > +#endif
> > > > > +
> > > >
> > > > Move ifdef inside the function?
> > >
> > > OK, I will define a dummy function for non-verification situation.
> >
> > IIRC you can just put the #ifdef inside the function body.
>
> This is certainly not to be invoked on a frequent basis (and therefore
> not on a hot path), but from a more general angle, wouldn't this leave
> a(nother) plain "jsr... rts" sequence without any effect other than
> burning a few cycles? If the whole function call can be disabled
> (ignored) in a certain configuration, it shouldn't call at all, should
> it?

gcc should be able to deal with optimizing that out.
Pavel
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