Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:03:05 +0800 | From | Ren Qiaowei <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX |
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On 02/27/2014 05:44 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/26/2014 11:17 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: >> On 02/23/2014 05:27 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote: >>> +Bounds Directory (BD) and Bounds Tables (BT) are stored in >>> +application memory and are allocated by the application (in case >>> +of kernel use, the structures will be in kernel memory). The >>> +bound directory and each instance of bound table are in contiguous >>> +linear memory. >> >> Hi Qiaowei, >> >> Does this mean that if userspace decided to map something in the way of >> the bounds tables that it would break MPX? >> >> Also, in the description, could we s/linear/virtual/? Linear seems to >> be the term that Intel likes to use in its documents, but we almost >> universally call them virtual addresses in the kernel. >> > > It might be useful to clarify, though, just so noone gets confused with > effective addresses (offsets). > Ok. Some words here come from some MPX public documents. I need to go through more carefully.
Thanks, Qiaowei
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