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  1. Oct 01, 2012
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86: Implement SMEP and SMAP · a9321a4d
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      
      This patch implements Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention (SMEP) and
      Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) for x86.  The purpose of the
      patch, obviously, is to help kernel developers debug the support for
      those features.
      
      A fair bit of the code relates to the handling of CPUID features.  The
      CPUID code probably would get greatly simplified if all the feature
      bit words were unified into a single vector object, but in the
      interest of producing a minimal patch for SMEP/SMAP, and because I had
      very limited time for this project, I followed the existing style.
      
      [ v2: don't change the definition of the qemu64 CPU shorthand, since
        that breaks loading old snapshots.  Per Anthony Liguori this can be
        fixed once the CPU feature set is snapshot.
      
        Change the coding style slightly to conform to checkpatch.pl. ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
      a9321a4d
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