x86: de-couple user mode and HW stack protection
This is intended for memory-constrained systems and will save
4K per thread, since we will no longer reserve room for or
activate a kernel stack guard page.
If CONFIG_USERSPACE is enabled, stack overflows will still be
caught in some situations:
1) User mode threads overflowing stack, since it crashes into the
kernel stack page
2) Supervisor mode threads overflowing stack, since the kernel
stack page is marked non-present for non-user threads
Stack overflows will not be caught:
1) When handling a system call
2) When the interrupt stack overflows
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
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