Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:00:29 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx |
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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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