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[4/5] x86/mpx: remove build infratsructure

Message ID 1546624183-26543-5-git-send-email-dave.hansen@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [1/5] x86/mpx: remove MPX APIs | expand

Commit Message

Dave Hansen Jan. 4, 2019, 5:49 p.m. UTC 
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support
in the toolchain going forward (gcc).

Remove the Kconfig option and the Makefile line.  This makes
arch/x86/mm/mpx.c and anything under an #ifdef for
X86_INTEL_MPX dead code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig     | 28 ----------------------------
 arch/x86/mm/Makefile |  1 -
 2 files changed, 29 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index e260460..b668833 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1880,34 +1880,6 @@  config X86_INTEL_UMIP
 	  specific cases in protected and virtual-8086 modes. Emulated
 	  results are dummy.
 
-config X86_INTEL_MPX
-	prompt "Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions)"
-	def_bool n
-	# Note: only available in 64-bit mode due to VMA flags shortage
-	depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64
-	select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
-	---help---
-	  MPX provides hardware features that can be used in
-	  conjunction with compiler-instrumented code to check
-	  memory references.  It is designed to detect buffer
-	  overflow or underflow bugs.
-
-	  This option enables running applications which are
-	  instrumented or otherwise use MPX.  It does not use MPX
-	  itself inside the kernel or to protect the kernel
-	  against bad memory references.
-
-	  Enabling this option will make the kernel larger:
-	  ~8k of kernel text and 36 bytes of data on a 64-bit
-	  defconfig.  It adds a long to the 'mm_struct' which
-	  will increase the kernel memory overhead of each
-	  process and adds some branches to paths used during
-	  exec() and munmap().
-
-	  For details, see Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt
-
-	  If unsure, say N.
-
 config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
 	prompt "Intel Memory Protection Keys"
 	def_bool y
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
index 4b101dd..8cc3639 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@  obj-$(CONFIG_AMD_NUMA)		+= amdtopology.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA)		+= srat.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA_EMU)		+= numa_emulation.o
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MPX)			+= mpx.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS)	+= pkeys.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY)			+= kaslr.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION)		+= pti.o