Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jun 18 2014 - 11:02:00 EST


On 06/18/2014 07:44 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> Why?
>
> Practically, distros will have it enabled anyway (you have X86_INTEL_MPX
> depend on CPU_SUP_INTEL).
>
> Are you talking about the miniscule percentage of people building their
> own kernels?
>

We have people working hard to shave kilobytes off the smallest
configurations, because they want to fit into a megabyte of memory with
the kernel and application.

Let's try to not make their life harder than it needs to be.

-hpa

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