Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 07:24:43PM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> I intended this feature to be configurable at build time in case someone
> wants to build a kernel without it; similar to other features such as
> SMAP. Is this not needed? Should Linux be built with this feature always
> enabled?
> 
> This feature could always be disabled via a kernel parameter, though;
> even if Linux is built with it.

It probably is a good idea to have it build-time configurable for the
embedded folks. But you can do a before and after build and look at
the vmlinux size and see how much it has grown. If it is only a couple
of KBs I guess we can drop the config option even but I know there are
people who still care about KBs too...

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