On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:44:52PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > I'm all for it, but I think it should be hard-disablable in config, > too, for the -tiny people.
I totally agree. > If we add a runtime disable, let's do a > separate patch, and you and Kees can fight over how general it should > be. Initially I was thinking about changing it for a 3-state option but that would prevent X86_16BIT from being hard-disablable, so I'll do something completely separate. > > That's why here I think we should do the same, and possibly even > > emit a warning once to report the first user of modify_ldt if that > > can help. > > > > What do you think ? > > I'm generally in favor. OK. > On the other hand, the current series is already written, might even > be compatible with Xen, and patch 1 at least fixes a real bug. Maybe > several real bugs. That's my guess as well given how hard it seems for everyone in this long thread to imagine all possible bugs we can face :-/ Thanks, Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/