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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 36 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index d69f1cd87fd9..ba397bde7948 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -249,10 +249,6 @@ 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 @@ -887,11 +883,11 @@ config X86_UP_IOAPIC config X86_LOCAL_APIC def_bool y depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI + select GENERIC_IRQ_LEGACY_ALLOC_HWIRQ config X86_IO_APIC - def_bool y - depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC || PCI_MSI - select GENERIC_IRQ_LEGACY_ALLOC_HWIRQ + def_bool X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC + depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC select IRQ_DOMAIN config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS @@ -1594,6 +1590,32 @@ 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 |