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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:10:59 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/20] x86: avoid W^X being broken during modules
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:09:25AM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:
> It is just that I find the use of static_cpu_has()/boot_cpu_has() to be very
> inconsistent. I doubt that show_cpuinfo_misc(), copy_fpstate_to_sigframe(),
> or i915_memcpy_init_early() that use static_cpu_has() are any hotter than
> text_poke_early().

Would some beefing of the comment over it help?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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