Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:16:47 +0800 | From | Ren Qiaowei <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_INIT, PR_MPX_RELEASE |
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On 01/27/2014 10:10 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/26/2014 05:55 PM, Ren Qiaowei wrote: >> >> Peter, you mean we should remove these two call and do what they do in >> user-space, right? >> > > Unless we think there is a benefit to the kernel to have a on/off switch > for the #BR exception (if disabled, all #BR exceptions are signals, > regardless of source.) > > There might be, would like other people's opinion. >
These two syscalls are only used to release automaticlly the bound tables, and they will not set BNDSTATUS and BNDCFGU.
I want to remove them also. :) But if so, we have to release the bound tables in user-space.
Thanks, Qiaowei
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