Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752712AbaAZI0M (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:26:12 -0500 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:52394 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751348AbaAZI0K (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:26:10 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,723,1384329600"; d="scan'208";a="444711863" Message-ID: <52E4C551.7020402@intel.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:20:33 +0800 From: Ren Qiaowei User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Intel MPX support References: <1390727338-20487-1-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com> <20140126081912.GA28831@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140126081912.GA28831@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/26/2014 04:19 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Qiaowei Ren wrote: > >> This patchset adds support for the Memory Protection Extensions >> (MPX) feature found in future Intel processors. >> >> MPX can be used in conjunction with compiler changes to check memory >> references, for those references whose compile-time normal intentions >> are usurped at runtime due to buffer overflow or underflow. >> >> MPX provides this capability at very low performance overhead for >> newly compiled code, and provides compatibility mechanisms with legacy >> software components. MPX architecture is designed allow a machine to >> run both MPX enabled software and legacy software that is MPX unaware. >> In such a case, the legacy software does not benefit from MPX, but it >> also does not experience any change in functionality or reduction in >> performance. >> >> More information about Intel MPX can be found in "Intel(R) Architecture >> Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference". >> >> To get the advantage of MPX, changes are required in the OS kernel, >> binutils, compiler, system libraries support. >> >> New GCC option -fmpx is introduced to utilize MPX instructions. >> Currently GCC compiler sources with MPX support is available in a >> separate branch in common GCC SVN repository. See GCC SVN page >> (http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html) for details. >> >> To have the full protection, we had to add MPX instrumentation to all >> the necessary Glibc routines (e.g. memcpy) written on assembler, and >> compile Glibc with the MPX enabled GCC compiler. Currently MPX enabled >> Glibc source can be found in Glibc git repository. >> >> Enabling an application to use MPX will generally not require source >> code updates but there is some runtime code, which is responsible for >> configuring and enabling MPX, needed in order to make use of MPX. >> For most applications this runtime support will be available by linking >> to a library supplied by the compiler or possibly it will come directly >> from the OS once OS versions that support MPX are available. >> >> MPX kernel code, namely this patchset, has mainly the 2 responsibilities: >> provide handlers for bounds faults (#BR), and manage bounds memory. > > AFAICS the kernel side implementation causes no runtime overhead for > non-MPX workloads, and also causes no runtime overhead for non-MPX > hardware, right? > Yes. >> Currently no hardware with MPX ISA is available but it is always >> possible to use SDE (Intel(R) software Development Emulator) instead, >> which can be downloaded from >> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator >> >> >> Changes since v1: >> * check to see if #BR occurred in userspace or kernel space. >> * use generic structure and macro as much as possible when >> decode mpx instructions. >> >> Changes since v2: >> * fix some compile warnings. >> * update documentation. >> >> Qiaowei Ren (4): >> x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX >> x86, mpx: hook #BR exception handler to allocate bound tables >> x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_INIT, PR_MPX_RELEASE >> x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound violation >> information >> >> Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 226 ++++++++++++++++++++ >> arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 + >> arch/x86/include/asm/mpx.h | 63 ++++++ >> arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 16 ++ >> arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 + >> arch/x86/kernel/mpx.c | 415 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 61 +++++- >> include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h | 9 +- >> include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 6 + >> kernel/signal.c | 4 + >> kernel/sys.c | 12 + >> 11 files changed, 815 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt >> create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/mpx.h >> create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/mpx.c > > Ok, this summary was pretty good - it addresses my prior objections > wrt. submission quality. Once the details are fleshed out this sure > looks like a useful feature. > Thanks. I apologize for previous submission. Thanks, Qiaowei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/