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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 07/10] x86, mpx: decode MPX instruction to get bound violation information
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:07:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppgz2qio.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405921124-4230-8-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com> (Qiaowei Ren's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:38:41 +0800")

Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> writes:
> +	 */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> +	insn->x86_64 = 1;
> +	insn->addr_bytes = 8;
> +#else
> +	insn->x86_64 = 0;
> +	insn->addr_bytes = 4;
> +#endif

How would that handle compat mode on a 64bit kernel?
Should likely look at the code segment instead of ifdef.
> +	/* Note: the upper 32 bits are ignored in 32-bit mode. */

Again correct for compat mode? I believe the upper bits 
are undefined.


-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-21  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-21  5:38 [PATCH v7 00/10] Intel MPX support Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 01/10] x86, mpx: introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 02/10] x86, mpx: add MPX specific mmap interface Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-22 16:18   ` Dave Hansen
2014-07-23  2:35     ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-23 16:02       ` Dave Hansen
2014-07-24  0:56         ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-24  4:46           ` Dave Hansen
2014-07-24  5:23             ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 04/10] x86, mpx: hook #BR exception handler to allocate bound tables Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 05/10] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound violation information Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-22  0:42   ` Zhang, Tianfei
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 06/10] mips: sync struct siginfo with general version Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 07/10] x86, mpx: decode MPX instruction to get bound violation information Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-21  6:07   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-07-21  6:11     ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 08/10] x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_REGISTER, PR_MPX_UNREGISTER Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-21  6:09   ` Andi Kleen
2014-10-13 17:41     ` Dave Hansen
2014-10-14  1:44       ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-23 16:20   ` Dave Hansen
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables Qiaowei Ren
2014-07-22  0:50   ` Zhang, Tianfei
2014-07-23 16:38   ` Dave Hansen
2014-07-24  0:49     ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-24  1:04       ` Dave Hansen
2014-07-24  1:27         ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-21  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 10/10] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX Qiaowei Ren

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