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User-Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is enabled by setting/clearing a bit in %cr4. It makes sense to enable UMIP at some point while booting, before user spaces come up. Like SMAP and SMEP, is not critical to have it enabled very early during boot. This is because UMIP is relevant only when there is a user space to be protected from. Given these similarities, UMIP can be enabled along with SMAP and SMEP. At the moment, UMIP is disabled by default at build time. It can be enabled at build time by selecting CONFIG_X86_INTEL_UMIP. If enabled at build time, it can be disabled at run time by adding clearcpuid=514 to the kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: ricardo.neri@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509935277-22138-10-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.