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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 22:20:27 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> Cc: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/boot/32: Delete cpuinfo_x86::wp_works_ok On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:48:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Linux refuses to boot if WP doesn't work okay, so tracking whether > it works serves no purpose. The only use I can see at all for wp_works_ok > is that it lets Xen bypass test_wp_bit(). If this is truly needed, > it could be more cleanly handled using X86_FEATURE_XENPV, but it > looks like Xen can handle test_wp_bit() correctly without special > cases at all. > > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=6415813bae75feba10b8ca3ed6634a72c2a4d313 What's up? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
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