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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Intel MPX support
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:41:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A1A509.4080802@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403084656-27284-1-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com>

On 06/18/2014 02:44 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> This patchset adds support for the Memory Protection Extensions
> (MPX) feature found in future Intel processors.

It's very important to note that this is a very different patch set than
the last one.  The way we are freeing the unused bounds tables is
_completely different (9/10), and needs some very heavy mm reviews.  I'm
sure Qiaowei will cc linux-mm@ next time.

We're also not asking that this be merged in its current state.  The
32-bit binary on 64-bit kernel issue is a show stopper for merging, but
we're trying to post early and often.

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Intel MPX support
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:41:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A1A509.4080802@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403084656-27284-1-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com>

On 06/18/2014 02:44 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> This patchset adds support for the Memory Protection Extensions
> (MPX) feature found in future Intel processors.

It's very important to note that this is a very different patch set than
the last one.  The way we are freeing the unused bounds tables is
_completely different (9/10), and needs some very heavy mm reviews.  I'm
sure Qiaowei will cc linux-mm@ next time.

We're also not asking that this be merged in its current state.  The
32-bit binary on 64-bit kernel issue is a show stopper for merging, but
we're trying to post early and often.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-18 14:41 UTC|newest]

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
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 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-06-18 14:41   ` [PATCH v6 00/10] Intel MPX support Dave Hansen

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