Previous documentation has referred to these 4 bits as "ignored".
That means that software could have made use of them. But, as
far as I know, the kernel never used them.
They are still ignored when protection keys is not enabled, so
they could theoretically still get used for software purposes.
We also implement "empty" versions so that code that references
to them can be optimized away by the compiler when the config
option is not enabled.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210205.81E33ED6@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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