linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 01/24] mm: Introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE

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Message-Id: <1520963994-28477-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:59:31 +0100
From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v9 01/24] mm: Introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

This configuration variable will be used to build the code needed to
handle speculative page fault.

By default it is turned off, and activated depending on architecture
support.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index abefa573bcd8..07c566c88faf 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -759,3 +759,6 @@ config GUP_BENCHMARK
 	  performance of get_user_pages_fast().
 
 	  See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c
+
+config SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+       bool
-- 
2.7.4