From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965447AbcBSRX3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:23:29 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:57476 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965370AbcBSRX0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:23:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:23:21 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Hansen , linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, brgerst@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, luto@amacapital.net, dvlasenk@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/pkeys: Do not enable them by default Message-ID: <20160219172321.GG8918@pd.tnic> References: <20160212210200.DB7055E8@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20160219112715.GD8918@pd.tnic> <56C74CA7.1040105@sr71.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56C74CA7.1040105@sr71.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 09:11:03AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > I'd really prefer this be left on by default. This is a feature that I > expect to be widely enabled in distribution kernels. Distribution kernels can enable it without defaulting to y here. Also, this code doesn't need to be built on the majority of x86 boxes out there because they don't have the hw support. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.