On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 12:31:38AM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote: > Yea, I was thinking to maybe just change it to > CONFIG_X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK in show_smap_vma_flags(). In that function > there is already CONFIG_ARM64_BTI and CONFIG_ARM64_MTE. I was thinking exactly the same thing. :-) > I'm not sure if there is any aversion to having arch CONFIGs in core > code, but it's kind of nice to have all of the potentially conflicting > strings in once place. Yeah, ok. I guess you can do the CONFIG_X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK thing for the sake of simplicity. We have *waaay* too many Kconfig symbols and we should introduce only the least amount of new ones. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette