Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 2015 21:23:39 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] x86/cpufeature: Remove unused and seldomly used cpu_has_xx macros |
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:13:55PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Given an appropriate long description for that config option, that seems > worthwhile. Something like this: > > Some fast-paths in the kernel depend on the capabilities of the CPU. > Say Y here for the kernel to patch in the appropriate code at runtime > based on the capabilities of the CPU. The infrastructure for patching > code at runtime takes up some additional space; space-constrained > embedded systems may wish to say N here to produce smaller, slightly > slower code.
Thanks for the text, looks good and I'll use it. :)
And yes, considering the size of the patch, it is really worthwhile to save ~1.6K kernel text that easily.
I'll do a proper patch and run it through the build tests.
Thanks.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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