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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt index 818518a3ff01..1a5a12184a35 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ A: MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in If we were to preallocate them for the 128TB of user virtual address space, we would need to reserve 512TB+2GB, which is larger than the entire virtual address space today. This means they can not be reserved - ahead of time. Also, a single process's pre-popualated bounds directory + ahead of time. Also, a single process's pre-populated bounds directory consumes 2GB of virtual *AND* physical memory. IOW, it's completely infeasible to prepopulate bounds directories. @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every memory these calls. Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables allocated - there in a signal handler intead of in the kernel? + there in a signal handler instead of in the kernel? A: mmap() is not on the list of safe async handler functions and even if mmap() would work it still requires locking or nasty tricks to keep track of the allocation state there. |