[PATCH 1/2] x86,mpx: make mpx depend on x86-64 to free up VMA flag
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Date: 2017-08-11 21:29:00
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Subsystem:
memory management - core, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
From: Rik van Riel <redacted> MPX only seems to be available on 64 bit CPUs, starting with Skylake and Goldmont. Move VM_MPX into the 64 bit only portion of vma->vm_flags, in order to free up a VMA flag. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <redacted> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <redacted> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 +++- include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 781521b7cf9e..6dff14fadc6f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig@@ -1756,7 +1756,9 @@ config X86_SMAP config X86_INTEL_MPX prompt "Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions)" def_bool n - depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL + # 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
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 46b9ac5e8569..7550eeb06ccf 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h@@ -208,10 +208,12 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_1 33 /* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */ #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_2 34 /* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */ #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_3 35 /* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */ +#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4 36 /* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */ #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_0 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_0) #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_1 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_1) #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_2 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_2) #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_3 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_3) +#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_4 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4) #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS */ #if defined(CONFIG_X86)
@@ -235,9 +237,11 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); # define VM_MAPPED_COPY VM_ARCH_1 /* T if mapped copy of data (nommu mmap) */ #endif -#if defined(CONFIG_X86) +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MPX) /* MPX specific bounds table or bounds directory */ -# define VM_MPX VM_ARCH_2 +# define VM_MPX VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4 +#else +# define VM_MPX VM_NONE #endif #ifndef VM_GROWSUP
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