Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: remove unused macros

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed Jan 22 2020 - 01:51:59 EST


On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 03:07:23PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> FWIW, I'm not a massive fan of blindly removing stuff like this. Maybe
> it's better to remove the cruft, but it's even better to try to figure
> out why I might have added them in the first place. :)
>
> I *think* it was an attempt to ensure that a resulting PKRU value can be
> written to PKRU, independent of the type it was stored as.
>
> Let me see if I can come up with something nicer than ripping these out.

Sure. Thanks a huge, Dave!