x86/cpu: Provide a config option to disable static_cpu_has
This brings .text savings of about ~1.6K when building a tinyconfig. It
is off by default so nothing changes for the default.
Kconfig help text from Josh.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449481182-27541-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index db3622f..a2abc2f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -349,6 +349,17 @@
If in doubt, say Y.
+config X86_FAST_FEATURE_TESTS
+ bool "Fast CPU feature tests" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ ---help---
+ Some fast-paths in the kernel depend on the capabilities of the CPU.
+ Say Y here for the kernel to patch in the appropriate code at runtime
+ based on the capabilities of the CPU. The infrastructure for patching
+ code at runtime takes up some additional space; space-constrained
+ embedded systems may wish to say N here to produce smaller, slightly
+ slower code.
+
config X86_X2APIC
bool "Support x2apic"
depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST)