Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:20:59 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 08/10] x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_REGISTER, PR_MPX_UNREGISTER |
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On 09/18/2014 12:17 AM, Kevin Easton wrote: > I was assuming that if an application did want to enable MPX after threads > had already been created, it would generally want to enable it > simultaneously across all threads. This would be a lot easier for the > kernel than for the application.
The current gcc setup mechanism would set up MPX even before main(). So I think it's pretty unlikely that help is needed to coordinate threads.
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