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Commit f240652b authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/mpx: Remove MPX APIs



MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support in the
toolchain going forward (gcc).

The first step is to remove the userspace-visible ABIs so that applications
will stop using it.  The most visible one are the enable/disable prctl()s.
Remove them first.

This is the most minimal and least invasive change needed to ensure that
apps stop using MPX with new kernels.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190705175321.DB42F0AD@viggo.jf.intel.com
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