Re: [patch V2 15/16] x86/iopl: Remove legacy IOPL option
From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Nov 12 2019 - 13:37:23 EST
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> The IOPL emulation via the I/O bitmap is sufficient. Remove the legacy
> cruft dealing with the (e)flags based IOPL mechanism.
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
But I think you could simplify a little bit and have a single config
option that controls the iopl() and iopl() syscalls.