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SubjectRe: [patch 02/15] x86/cpu: Uninline CR4 accessors
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:01:02AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> While this is better than what we had before we really need to have
> a discussion on lkdtm - it needs a lot of crap that otherwise wouldn't
> be exported, and I'm really worried about people enabling it and thus
> adding exports even if they are conditional.

Thought the same too, while looking at that. It is fine and dandy that
it injects all kinds of crap into a running kernel but not at the price
of exporting such internal interfaces.

> Can we force the code to be built in require a boot option for it to
> be activated?

Yes please.

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