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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, mchehab@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Wrong defaults in 3.7-rc3
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:32:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A6B0E6.2010608@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121115110620.GA3451@elf.ucw.cz>

On 11/15/2012 03:06 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (X86_SMAP) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
> 
> ...Slows stuff down, eats memory, only works on unreleased Intel CPUs
> (from 2013!)  perhaps should be off by default?
> 
> "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security
> feature in newer Intel processors.  There is a small
> performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is
> also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled."
> 

*Extremely* small.  Unless you are targeting a specific processor there
is no point in disabling it.  If anyone can find a non-SMAP processor on
which the overhead is measurable I would be highly surprised, except
perhaps some embedded 486 clone.

	-hpa



      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-16 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-15 11:06 Wrong defaults in 3.7-rc3 Pavel Machek
2012-11-15 11:43 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-11-16 21:32 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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