Commit-ID: 284244a9876225eb73102aff41d4492f65cb2868 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/284244a9876225eb73102aff41d4492f65cb2868 Author: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:02:28 -0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:46:30 +0100
x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option I don't have a strong opinion on whether we need this or not. Protection Keys has relatively little code associated with it, and it is not a heavyweight feature to keep enabled. However, I can imagine that folks would still appreciate being able to disable it. Here's the option if folks want it. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index fb2ebeb..b875434 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1716,8 +1716,18 @@ config X86_INTEL_MPX If unsure, say N. config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS + prompt "Intel Memory Protection Keys" def_bool y + # Note: only available in 64-bit mode depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64 + ---help--- + Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing + page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the + page tables when an application changes protection domains. + + For details, see Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt + + If unsure, say y. config EFI bool "EFI runtime service support"
