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On 09/21/2012 03:08 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> Perhaps add a printk somewhere to show that it's actually been enabled maybe ?
> 
> Also, would it be feasible to add something like we have for test_nx ?
> If this feature regresses in some way in the future, I suspect we'd like
> to know about it sooner rather than later.
> 

Good idea... should add this both for SMEP and SMAP.

	-hpa