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Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160701034601.30308-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Give MPX a real config option. The CPUs that support it (referenced
here):
https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/402393
are not available publicly yet. Right now only the software emulator
provides MPX for the general public.
[ tglx: Make it default off. There is no point in having it on right
now as no hardware and no proper tooling support are available ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183836.2569D58D@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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I was writing some MPX test programs and realized that the
current design makes it tricky. I did something like:
bndcfgu |= bnd_dir | BNDCFGU_ENABLE;
xrstor();
printf("xrstor done");
// #BR bounds exception here
prctl(MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT);
and then compiled the app with "-fcheck-pointer-bounds -mmpx"
to enable MPX instrumentation.
The problem is that there is MPX instrumentation inserted in
to the area of the printf(). The kernel gets a bounds exception
and since management isn't yet enabled, it SIGSEGV's.
Add a bit to the documentation to explain a way around this and
where apps need to be careful.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183835.8C581B3E@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This patch adds the Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt file with some
information about Intel MPX.
Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151832.7FDB1720@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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