[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v2] NX build fixup

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Nov 2019 16:14:11 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.lore.historical-speck
Message-ID <20191101211411.4tsxl7oiye7igo7e@treble>
On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 08:39:09PM +0000, speck for Tyler Hicks wrote:
> From: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
> Subject: [PATCH] cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers
> 
> A kernel module may need to check the value of the "mitigations=" kernel
> command line parameter as part of its setup when the module needs
> to perform software mitigations for a CPU flaw. Uninline and export the
> helper functions surrounding the cpu_mitigations enum to allow for their
> usage from a module. Lastly, privatize the enum and cpu_mitigations
> variable since the value of cpu_mitigations can be checked with the
> exported helper functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

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Josh