From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This sets the bit in 'cr4' to actually enable the protection keys feature. We also include a boot-time disable for the feature "nopku". Seting X86_CR4_PKE will cause the X86_FEATURE_OSPKE cpuid bit to appear set. At this point in boot, identify_cpu() has already run the actual CPUID instructions and populated the "cpu features" structures. We need to go back and re-run identify_cpu() to make sure it gets updated values. We *could* simply re-populate the 11th word of the cpuid data, but this is probably quick enough. Also note that with the cpu_has() check and X86_FEATURE_PKU present in disabled-features.h, we do not need an #ifdef for setup_pku(). Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 ++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c~pkeys-50-should-be-last-patch arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c~pkeys-50-should-be-last-patch 2016-01-06 15:50:13.522512707 -0800 +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c 2016-01-06 15:50:13.528512977 -0800 @@ -289,6 +289,46 @@ static __always_inline void setup_smap(s } /* + * Protection Keys are not available in 32-bit mode. + */ +static bool pku_disabled; +static __always_inline void setup_pku(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +{ + if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PKU)) + return; + if (pku_disabled) + return; + + cr4_set_bits(X86_CR4_PKE); + /* + * Seting X86_CR4_PKE will cause the X86_FEATURE_OSPKE + * cpuid bit to be set. We need to ensure that we + * update that bit in this CPU's "cpu_info". + */ + get_cpu_cap(c); +} +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS +static __init int setup_disable_pku(char *arg) +{ + /* + * Do not clear the X86_FEATURE_PKU bit. All of the + * runtime checks are against OSPKE so clearing the + * bit does nothing. + * + * This way, we will see "pku" in cpuinfo, but not + * "ospke", which is exactly what we want. It shows + * that the CPU has PKU, but the OS has not enabled it. + * This happens to be exactly how a system would look + * if we disabled the config option. + */ + pr_info("x86: 'nopku' specified, disabling Memory Protection Keys\n"); + pku_disabled = true; + return 1; +} +__setup("nopku", setup_disable_pku); +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */ + +/* * Some CPU features depend on higher CPUID levels, which may not always * be available due to CPUID level capping or broken virtualization * software. Add those features to this table to auto-disable them. @@ -948,6 +988,7 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_ init_hypervisor(c); x86_init_rdrand(c); x86_init_cache_qos(c); + setup_pku(c); /* * Clear/Set all flags overriden by options, need do it diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~pkeys-50-should-be-last-patch Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~pkeys-50-should-be-last-patch 2016-01-06 15:50:13.524512797 -0800 +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2016-01-06 15:50:13.529513023 -0800 @@ -958,6 +958,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more information about the feature. + nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found + in some Intel CPUs. + eagerfpu= [X86] on enable eager fpu restore off disable eager fpu restore _ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>