x86: Remove "x86 CPU features in debugfs" (CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG)

CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG, which provides some parsed versions of the x86
CPU configuration via debugfs, has caused boot failures on real
hardware.  The value of this feature has been marginal at best, as all
this information is already available to userspace via generic
interfaces.

Causes crashes that have not been fixed + minimal utility -> remove.

See the referenced LKML thread for more information.

Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001221755320.13231@localhost.localdomain>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index cbcbfdee3ee0..eb4092568f9e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -989,12 +989,6 @@ config X86_CPUID
           with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
           /dev/cpu/31/cpuid.
 
-config X86_CPU_DEBUG
-        tristate "/sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/* - CPU Debug support"
-        ---help---
-          If you select this option, this will provide various x86 CPUs
-          information through debugfs.
-
 choice
         prompt "High Memory Support"
         default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ