On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 12:51:34AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > In older kernels there's not even the boilerplate to check the static > > key in asm, > > This is the reason why I didn't use a static_key too.
We are talking about upstream first and given the amount of crap you backported already the few lines for the ASM jump labels really do not make a difference anymore. I so hope this exercise will finally stop the kernel-necrophilia in distros. I know it won't but hope dies last. Thanks, tglx