Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Intel MPX support

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> 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.

Thanks,

	Ingo