From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] arch/x86: Update config and kernel doc for MPK feature on AMD
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 08:33:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23ee5cfa-22ec-a367-04f2-4bca8edcfa9e@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200523122149.GF27431@zn.tnic>
On 5/23/20 5:21 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> +config X86_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
>> + # Set the "INTEL_"-free option whenever the "INTEL_" one is set.
>> + # The "INTEL_" one should be removed and replaced by this option
>> + # after 5.10. This avoids exposing most 'oldconfig' users to this
>> + # churn.
>> + def_bool X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
> I only picked up the discussion from the sidelines but why do we need
> this at all? If we don't want to have churn, then we can leave it be
> called X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS, not change the manpage and
> have this depend on CPU_SUP_AMD too so that people can select it on AMD
> machines, and get on with our lives.
>
> So what's up?
Thanks for pointing that out. I think this ended up mixing together the
two alternative, which doesn't make much sense.
Babu, let's just leave the config option _naming_ entirely in place.
The only change should be to the dependencies and the description text.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-26 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-13 22:39 [PATCH v5] arch/x86: Update config and kernel doc for MPK feature on AMD Babu Moger
2020-05-13 22:44 ` Dave Hansen
2020-05-23 12:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-26 15:33 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
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