linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/4] x86, cpu: Add SMEP CPU feature in CR4

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Message-Id: <1305683069-25394-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 18:44:27 -0700
From:	"Fenghua Yu" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Asit K Mallick" <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Avi Kivity" <avi@...hat.com>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Fenghua Yu" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] x86, cpu: Add SMEP CPU feature in CR4

From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>

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

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.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
-- 
1.7.2

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