Re: [PATCH] prctl.2: Add description of Intel MPX calls

2015-01-10 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 01/09/2015 07:36 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen > > The 3.19 kernel will have support for Intel MPX, including a pair > of new prctl() calls for enabling and disabling the kernel's > management of the "bounds tables". Add some descriptions of the > interface. > > The kernel patch

Re: [PATCH] prctl.2: Add description of Intel MPX calls

2015-01-08 Thread Dave Hansen
On 01/08/2015 02:27 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Thanks for the patch. Quite a number of queries below. Could you > address those and resubmit? Absolutely, thanks for the detailed review! I'll address most of your comments in the new patch. >> +The application must have allocated vir

Re: [PATCH] prctl.2: Add description of Intel MPX calls

2015-01-08 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[CC += Qiaowei Ren, in case they might comment] Hello Dave, Thanks for the patch. Quite a number of queries below. Could you address those and resubmit? On 12/15/2014 11:52 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen > > (apologies if this is a duplicate mail, I didn't see my first one > hit e