Re: [PATCHv11 18/19] x86/acpi: Add support for CPU offlining for ACPI MADT wakeup method

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 04:41:00PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> It is easy enough to do. See the patch below.

Thanks, will have a look.

> But I am not sure if I can justify it properly. If someone doesn't really
> need 5-level paging, disabling it at compile-time would save ~34K of
> kernel code with the configuration.
> 
> Is it worth saving ~100 lines of code?

Well, it goes both ways: is it worth saving ~34K kernel text and for that make
the code a lot less conditional, more readable, contain less ugly ifdeffery,
...?

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