[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86, cpufeature: Define the Intel MPX feature flag" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Apr 21 09:27:19 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
x86, cpufeature: Define the Intel MPX feature flag
to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 206e12affaf6c706bba25da36340e6da21aa4b4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren at intel.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 08:20:57 +0800
Subject: x86, cpufeature: Define the Intel MPX feature flag
commit 191f57c137bcce0e3e9313acb77b2f114d15afbb upstream.
Define the Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions) CPU feature flag
in the cpufeature list.
Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren at intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386375658-2191-2-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 7290585..7076d71 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_ERMS (9*32+ 9) /* Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB */
#define X86_FEATURE_INVPCID (9*32+10) /* Invalidate Processor Context ID */
#define X86_FEATURE_RTM (9*32+11) /* Restricted Transactional Memory */
+#define X86_FEATURE_MPX (9*32+14) /* Memory Protection Extension */
#define X86_FEATURE_RDSEED (9*32+18) /* The RDSEED instruction */
#define X86_FEATURE_ADX (9*32+19) /* The ADCX and ADOX instructions */
#define X86_FEATURE_SMAP (9*32+20) /* Supervisor Mode Access Prevention */
--
1.9.1
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