Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] x86/mm: only check uniform after calling mtrr_type_lookup()

From: Edgecombe, Rick P
Date: Fri Feb 10 2023 - 19:06:26 EST


On Thu, 2023-02-09 at 08:22 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
> index e4f499eb0f29..7b9c5443d176 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
> @@ -721,8 +721,7 @@ int pud_set_huge(pud_t *pud, phys_addr_t addr,
> pgprot_t prot)
> u8 mtrr, uniform;

'mtrr' is now unused. Can it be dropped? Same for the pmd_set_huge().

>
> mtrr = mtrr_type_lookup(addr, addr + PUD_SIZE, &uniform);
> - if ((mtrr != MTRR_TYPE_INVALID) && (!uniform) &&
> - (mtrr != MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK))
> + if (!uniform)
> return 0;