Commit-ID: 72e9b5fe9bee0826e7ce7599adbdc64e544780ef Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/72e9b5fe9bee0826e7ce7599adbdc64e544780ef Author: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:38:36 -0800 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> CommitDate: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:58:57 +0100
x86, mpx: Give MPX a real config option prompt Give MPX a real config option. The CPUs that support it (referenced here): https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/402393 are not available publicly yet. Right now only the software emulator provides MPX for the general public. [ tglx: Make it default off. There is no point in having it on right now as no hardware and no proper tooling support are available ] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <d...@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183836.2569d...@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> --- Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 6 +++++- arch/x86/Kconfig | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt index 6ca6e2b..818518a 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt @@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ that can be used in conjunction with compiler changes to check memory references, for those references whose compile-time normal intentions are usurped at runtime due to buffer overflow or underflow. +You can tell if your CPU supports MPX by looking in /proc/cpuinfo: + + cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ' mpx ' + For more information, please refer to Intel(R) Architecture Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference, Chapter 9: Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions. -Note: Currently no hardware with MPX ISA is available but it is always +Note: As of December 2014, no hardware with MPX is available but it is possible to use SDE (Intel(R) Software Development Emulator) instead, which can be downloaded from http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 967dfe0..cc91e5e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -248,10 +248,6 @@ config HAVE_INTEL_TXT def_bool y depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI -config X86_INTEL_MPX - def_bool y - depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL - config X86_32_SMP def_bool y depends on X86_32 && SMP @@ -1575,6 +1571,32 @@ config X86_SMAP If unsure, say Y. +config X86_INTEL_MPX + prompt "Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions)" + def_bool n + depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL + ---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.txt + + If unsure, say N. + config EFI bool "EFI runtime service support" depends on ACPI -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
