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List:       linux-tiny
Subject:    [PATCH] Make sysenter support optional
From:       mpm () selenic ! com (Matt Mackall)
Date:       2005-12-29 13:48:18
Message-ID: 20051229194802.GA3356 () waste ! org
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 09:48:58AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > This adds configurable sysenter support on x86. This saves about 5k on 
> > small systems.
> 
> note that this also turns off vsyscalls. Right now vsyscalls are mostly 
> about sysenter support, but that's not fundamentally so. 4k of the 5k 
> savings come from the turn-off-vsyscalls portion.

Yes, this patch would more properly be CONFIG_VSYSCALL.

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