x86/umip: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention at runtime

User-Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is enabled by setting/clearing a
bit in %cr4.

It makes sense to enable UMIP at some point while booting, before user
spaces come up. Like SMAP and SMEP, is not critical to have it enabled
very early during boot. This is because UMIP is relevant only when there is
a user space to be protected from. Given these similarities, UMIP can be
enabled along with SMAP and SMEP.

At the moment, UMIP is disabled by default at build time. It can be enabled
at build time by selecting CONFIG_X86_INTEL_UMIP. If enabled at build time,
it can be disabled at run time by adding clearcpuid=514 to the kernel
parameters.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Yucong <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Rui <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509935277-22138-10-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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