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DateWed, 18 May 2011 05:13:08 GMT
Fromtip-bot for Fenghua Yu <>
Subject[tip:x86/smep] x86, cpu: Add SMEP CPU feature in CR4
Commit-ID:  dc23c0bccf5eea171c87b3db285d032b9a5f06c4
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/dc23c0bccf5eea171c87b3db285d032b9a5f06c4
Author: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:44:27 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 17 May 2011 21:06:42 -0700

x86, cpu: Add SMEP CPU feature in CR4

Add support for newly documented SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection)
CPU feature in CR4.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1305683069-25394-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h
index a898a2b..59ab4df 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
#define X86_CR4_OSXMMEXCPT 0x00000400 /* enable unmasked SSE exceptions */
#define X86_CR4_VMXE 0x00002000 /* enable VMX virtualization */
#define X86_CR4_OSXSAVE 0x00040000 /* enable xsave and xrestore */
+#define X86_CR4_SMEP 0x00100000 /* enable SMEP support */

/*
* x86-64 Task Priority Register, CR8

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