Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86: Supervisor Mode Access Prevention

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/24/2012 01:43 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> How about this...
> 
> mem protection  : nx smap smep
> 
> Maybe the "why" of a cpu feature being missing from the "mem
> protection" line can stay in printk?
> 

Come to think about it, since we use setup_set/clear_cpu_cap we aready
don't list the feature in /proc/cpuinfo already if it isn't enabled.

I would therefore suggest that we simply printk a message if the feature
is disabled.

	-hpa
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