On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 04:20:46PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > I've already stumbled over 2 cases where people got confused about how to > disable kpti on AArch64. In both cases, they used existing x86_64 options > and just applied that to an AArch64 system, expecting it to work. > > I think it makes a lot of sense to have compatible kernel command line > parameters whenever we can have them be compatible. > > So this patch adds the pti= and no_pti kernel command line options, mapping > them into the existing kpti= command line framework. It preserves the old > syntax to maintain compatibility with older command lines. > > While at it, the patch also marks the respective options as dual-arch. Thanks. Which also brings up my old complainst that arm64 and x86 should use the same config option. Bonus points for moving the parsing code to a common file..
