| Date | Mon, 18 May 2015 22:45:56 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/19] x86, mpx: boot-time disable |
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On Fri, 8 May 2015, Dave Hansen wrote: > MPX has the _potential_ to cause some issues. Say part of your init > system tried to protect one of its components from buffer overflows > with MPX. If there were a false positive, it's possible that MPX > could keep a system from booting. > > MPX could also potentially cause performance issues since it is > present in hot paths like the unmap path. > > Allow it to be disabled at boot time. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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