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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 01/24] x86/mm: Define CONFIG_SPF
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Hi Thomas,

Thanks for reviewing this series.

On 12/01/2018 19:57, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>
>> Introduce CONFIG_SPF which turns on the Speculative Page Fault handler when
>> building for 64bits with SMP.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ++++
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> index a317d5594b6a..d74353b85aaf 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> @@ -2882,6 +2882,10 @@ config X86_DMA_REMAP
>> config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP
>> def_bool y
>>
>> +config SPF
>> + def_bool y
>> + depends on X86_64 && SMP
>
> Can you please put that into a generic place as
>
> config SPF
> bool
>
> and let the architectures select it.

I'll change that to let the architectures (x86 and ppc64 currently)
selecting it, but the definition will remain in the arch/xxx/Kconfig file
since it depends on the architecture support in the page fault handler.

> Also SPF could be bit more elaborate and self explaining for the causual
> reader. 3 letter acronyms are reserved for non existing agencies.

That's true 3 letter acronyms are already reserved...
I'll change it to CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT as suggested by Matthew Wilcox.

Thanks,
Laurent.

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