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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 07/10] x86, mpx: decode MPX instruction to get bound violation information
On 09/11/2014 03:32 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 09/11/2014 03:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
>>> This patch sets bound violation fields of siginfo struct in #BR
>>> exception handler by decoding the user instruction and constructing
>>> the faulting pointer.
>>>
>>> This patch does't use the generic decoder, and implements a limited
>>> special-purpose decoder to decode MPX instructions, simply because the
>>> generic decoder is very heavyweight not just in terms of performance
>>> but in terms of interface -- because it has to.
>>
>> And why is that an argument to add another special purpose decoder?
>
> Peter asked for it to be done this way specifically:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/19/411
>

Specifically because marshaling the data in and out of the generic
decoder was more complex than a special-purpose decoder.

-hpa



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