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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-01-30 16:11:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-01-30 16:11:50 -0800 |
| commit | ccaaaf6fe5a5e1fffca5cca0f3fc4ec84d7ae752 (patch) | |
| tree | b6a7b69244445d0c4c4b3090e3c4a0e0a9617fba /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | 35c222fd323629cf2e834eb8aff77058856ffdda (diff) | |
| parent | 45fc24e89b7cc2e227b2f03d99dda0a2204bf383 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx
Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen:
"MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler
support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without
support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small
window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide
adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever
support it widely.
Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.
This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge
window when the MPX prctl()s were removed. XSAVE support is left in
place, which allows MPX-using KVM guests to continue to function"
* tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx:
x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook
x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code
x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure
x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 28 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index a283336bb5d5..90288ab1b99e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1888,34 +1888,6 @@ config X86_UMIP specific cases in protected and virtual-8086 modes. Emulated results are dummy. -config X86_INTEL_MPX - prompt "Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions)" - def_bool n - # Note: only available in 64-bit mode due to VMA flags shortage - depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64 - select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS - ---help--- - MPX provides hardware features that can be used in - conjunction with compiler-instrumented code to check - memory references. It is designed to detect buffer - overflow or underflow bugs. - - This option enables running applications which are - instrumented or otherwise use MPX. It does not use MPX - itself inside the kernel or to protect the kernel - against bad memory references. - - Enabling this option will make the kernel larger: - ~8k of kernel text and 36 bytes of data on a 64-bit - defconfig. It adds a long to the 'mm_struct' which - will increase the kernel memory overhead of each - process and adds some branches to paths used during - exec() and munmap(). - - For details, see Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst - - If unsure, say N. - config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS prompt "Intel Memory Protection Keys" def_bool y |