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[SRU,Trusty,3/7] x86: require x86-64 for automatic NUMA balancing

Message ID 20180822064021.17216-4-juergh@canonical.com
State New
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Series Follow-up fixes for CVE-2018-3620/CVE-2018-3646 | expand

Commit Message

Juerg Haefliger Aug. 22, 2018, 6:40 a.m. UTC 
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

32-bit support for NUMA is an oddity on its own but with automatic NUMA
balancing on top there is a reasonable risk that the CPUPID information
cannot be stored in the page flags.  This patch removes support for
automatic NUMA support on 32-bit x86.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

CVE-2018-3620
CVE-2018-3646

(cherry picked from commit 4468dd76f51f8be75d4f04f1d721e379596e7262)
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
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 arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 15fa347d3ced..5b7ab646d6a6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@  config X86
 	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
 	select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32
 	select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
-	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if X86_64
 	select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
 	select HAVE_IDE