On Mon, 15 Jan 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> 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.
Errm. No.
config SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
bool
goes into a generic config file, e.g. mm/Kconfig
Each architecture which implements support does:
select SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
in arch/xxx/Kconfig
Thanks,
tglx
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