CONFIG_ADDRESS_MASKING: Linear Address Masking support

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_ADDRESS_MASKING:

• prompt: Linear Address Masking support
• type: bool
• depends on: ( CONFIG_X86_64 ) && ( CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST || ! CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS )
• defined in arch/x86/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 6.4–6.12

Help text

Linear Address Masking (LAM) modifies the checking that is applied to 64-bit linear addresses, allowing software to use of the untranslated address bits for metadata.

The capability can be used for efficient address sanitizers (ASAN) implementation and for optimizations in JITs.

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