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    x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag · 8c3641e9
    Dave Hansen authored
    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: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150607183702.2E8B77AB@viggo.jf.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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