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Re: [PATCH] x86: Kill some chicken bits

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:58:18AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I would like to keep nosmap until SMAP hardware is more ubiquitous
> since SMAP is vulnerable to kernel bugs. We have already had a case
> where a maintainer pushed "cleanup" code straight to Linus, bypassing
> the x86 maintainers, which broke booting on SMAP hardware.

Right, so the thought came to my mind while going through those, that we
don't really know what they're going to be good for and what we're going
to need them for in the future. So maybe we want to keep them after all
- you never know.

For example, luto made me use "nosep" recently even though that's an
ancient chicken bit.

So maybe we want to not remove them ever - the cleanup win is not that
great to even care...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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[PATCH] x86: Kill some chicken bits Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-10-20 18:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Kill some chicken bits "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-10-20 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Kill some chicken bits Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-10-20 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86: Kill some chicken bits "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-10-21 10:20 +0200

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