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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 3/4] x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_INIT, PR_MPX_RELEASE
On 01/26/2014 12:39 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> It will be only once per startup.
>
> In that case it would be more efficient to make this part of the
> binary execution environment so that exec() sets it up automatically,
> not a separate prctl() syscall.
>

This is not necessarily possible, and in particular it might need to be
deferred until the MPX runtime has initialized.

What isn't clear to me is if these syscalls are needed at all, or if it
would be better to just let the MPX runtile set BNDSTATUS and BNDCFGU
directly in userspace. The kernel cannot rely on them staying
consistent across userspace anyway.

Now, it might be beneficial for the kernel to have them anyway. It's a
bit of a tough call.

-hpa




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