Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Sun Jul 11 2004 - 07:21:10 EST


On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:02:25AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Apropos of nothing much, CONFIG_X86 would be preferreed here, but x86_64
> defines that too.

IMO, x86-64 should stop defining CONFIG_X86. It's far more common
to say "X86 && !X86_64" than it is to say X86. How about defining
CONFIG_X86_COMMON and migrating usage of X86 to X86_COMMON?

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