Re: [patch] let CONFIG_SECCOMP default to n

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
> We can just fold the TSC disable stuff into the new thread_flags test
> at context-switch time:

I really think that this should be cleaned up to _not_ confuse the issue 
of TSC with any "secure computing" issue.

The two have nothing to do with each other from a technical standpoint. 

Just make the flag be called "TIF_NOTSC", and then any random usage 
(whether it be seccomp or anything else) can just set that flag, the same 
way ioperm() sets TIF_IO_BITMAP.

Much cleaner. 

There's no point in mixing up an implementation detail like SECCOMP with a 
feature like this.

			Linus
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