Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ren, Qiaowei" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 1/3] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:55:10 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@alien8.de] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 9:27 PM > To: Ren, Qiaowei > Cc: Paolo Bonzini; H. Peter Anvin; Ingo Molnar; Thomas Gleixner; > x86@kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; > kvm@vger.kernel.org; Xudong Hao; Liu, Jinsong > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX > > On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 02:52:54AM +0800, Qiaowei Ren wrote: > > This patch adds the Documentation/intel_mpx.txt file with some > > information about Intel MPX. > > > > Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> > > Signed-off-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> > > Signed-off-by: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com> > > --- > > Documentation/intel_mpx.txt | 77 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Documentation/x86/ is probably a more fitting place for this. > Yes. I will move it to Documentation/x86.
> > 1 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 > > Documentation/intel_mpx.txt > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/intel_mpx.txt > > new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d947d0 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/Documentation/intel_mpx.txt > > @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ > > +Intel(R) MPX Overview: > > +===================== > > + > > +Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions (Intel(R) MPX) is a new > > +capability introduced into Intel Architecture. Intel MPX can increase > > +the robustness of software when it is used in conjunction with > > +compiler changes to check memory references, for those references > > +whose compile-time normal intentions are usurped > > That's a strange formulation, what does it actually mean? The intentions of > references?? > It is from public introduction and specification, you can refer to http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/introduction-to-intel-memory-protection-extensions
Thanks, Qiaowei
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