Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752939AbaFRPB5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:01:57 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46896 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751251AbaFRPBH (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:01:07 -0400 Message-ID: <53A1A98D.8050408@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:00:29 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen CC: Qiaowei Ren , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx References: <1403084656-27284-1-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com> <1403084656-27284-4-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com> <20140618095739.GA24419@pd.tnic> <53A1A3A5.9010109@intel.com> <20140618144429.GD24024@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20140618144429.GD24024@pd.tnic> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/