Re: [patch] let CONFIG_SECCOMP default to n

Linus Torvalds
2006-07-12T21:59:17Z

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
> We can just fold the TSC disable stuff into the new thread_flags test
> at context-switch time:

I really think that this should be cleaned up to _not_ confuse the issue
of TSC with any "secure computing" issue.

The two have nothing to do with each other from a technical standpoint.

Just make the flag be called "TIF_NOTSC", and then any random usage
(whether it be seccomp or anything else) can just set that flag, the same
way ioperm() sets TIF_IO_BITMAP.

Much cleaner.

There's no point in mixing up an implementation detail like SECCOMP with a
feature like this.

Linus