"H. Peter Anvin" writes:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin"
>
> This patch implements Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention (SMEP) and
> Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) for x86. The purpose of the
> patch, obviously, is to help kernel developers debug the support for
> those features.
>
> A fair
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 01:18:43PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin"
>
> This patch implements Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention (SMEP) and
> Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) for x86. The purpose of the
> patch, obviously, is to help kernel developers debug the sup
From: "H. Peter Anvin"
This patch implements Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention (SMEP) and
Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) for x86. The purpose of the
patch, obviously, is to help kernel developers debug the support for
those features.
A fair bit of the code relates to the handling o
