> -----Original Message----- > From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ingo > Molnar > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:53 PM > To: Ren, Qiaowei > Cc: H. Peter Anvin; Thomas Gleixner; Ingo Molnar; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Peter Zijlstra > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Intel MPX support > > > * Qiaowei Ren <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Changes since v1: > > * check to see if #BR occurred in userspace or kernel space. > > * use generic structure and macro as much as possible when > > decode mpx instructions. > > > > Qiaowei Ren (4): > > x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX > > x86, mpx: hook #BR exception handler to allocate bound tables > > x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_INIT, PR_MPX_RELEASE > > x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound violation > > information > > > > Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 76 +++++++ > > arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 + > > arch/x86/include/asm/mpx.h | 63 ++++++ > > arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 16 ++ > > arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 + > > arch/x86/kernel/mpx.c | 417 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 61 +++++- > > include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h | 9 +- > > include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 6 + > > kernel/signal.c | 4 + > > kernel/sys.c | 12 + > > 11 files changed, 667 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode > > 100644 Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt create mode 100644 > > arch/x86/include/asm/mpx.h create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/mpx.c > > Such a patch submission is absolutely inadequate! > > Please outline: > > - a short summary of what the feature does > > - a short description of what hardware supports it today or will > support it in the future > > - a short description of whether the feature needs any > configuration from the user or it's entirely auto-enabled on > hardware that supports it. > > - a cost/benefit description to unrelated code: is this slowing down > anything else? > > - how does user-space compiler support stand, what's the expected > status there, etc. > > Only a small fraction of that information can be found in > Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt. in > > I'm absolutely sick of these semi-anonymous patch submissions from Intel, so > I'm NAK-ing it until it's communicated properly. > Ok. I will add related content into this documentation.
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