From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:25:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140618152505.GE24024@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A1A90D.5010604@intel.com>
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 07:58:21AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Are you seriously asking why we would want to cull out code guaranteed
> to be unused?
Yes, I am. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for not enabling code which is
unused - I'm just questioning the actual usage case here.
Because you have this:
+config X86_INTEL_MPX
+ def_bool y
+ depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
which means, even on !MPX Intels, you need to explicitly say "no" here.
Is this how the configuration is supposed to be done?
Or do you need to add help text to explain to people not to enable this
on !MPX machines after looking at /proc/cpuinfo first?
Am I close?
> The minuscule number of people not using a distro kernel? Like, every
> Android and Chrome device in the world? How about the cloud providers
> with millions of servers?
Cloud people won't be benefiting from MPX?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-18 9:44 [PATCH v6 00/10] Intel MPX support Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 01/10] x86, mpx: introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 02/10] x86, mpx: add MPX specific mmap interface Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-23 19:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 19:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:03 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:03 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:28 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:28 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 21:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 21:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24 5:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-24 5:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-24 23:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24 23:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 1:40 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-25 1:40 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-25 21:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:45 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-25 21:45 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-26 22:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-26 22:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-26 22:58 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-26 22:58 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-26 23:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-26 23:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 0:19 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 0:19 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 0:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 0:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 17:34 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 17:34 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 17:42 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 17:42 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 18:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 18:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:43 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-25 21:43 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24 2:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-24 2:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 03/10] x86, mpx: add macro cpu_has_mpx Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 14:35 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 14:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 14:58 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 15:25 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-06-18 16:17 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 15:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-18 15:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 14:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-18 16:25 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 17:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-19 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-19 18:50 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-20 3:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 04/10] x86, mpx: hook #BR exception handler to allocate bound tables Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-23 19:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24 1:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-07-11 16:23 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 05/10] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound violation information Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 06/10] mips: sync struct siginfo with general version Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 07/10] x86, mpx: decode MPX instruction to get bound violation information Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 10:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-19 1:13 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-19 6:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-19 6:53 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-19 17:04 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-19 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-20 3:21 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 08/10] x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_REGISTER, PR_MPX_UNREGISTER Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-19 20:58 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:09 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 22:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 23:42 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24 0:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24 0:10 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-23 19:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-18 9:44 ` [PATCH v6 10/10] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX Qiaowei Ren
2014-06-18 14:41 ` [PATCH v6 00/10] Intel MPX support Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 14:41 ` Dave Hansen
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