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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 11:23:48 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> For all practical purposes, "native" was really just a chicken bit
> in case something went wrong with the emulation.  It's been over six
> years, and nothing has gone wrong.  Delete it.

Ack.

I guess we';ll hear if anybody might still use it and cares, but..

               Linus

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