Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include boundviolation information

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:22:27PM +0800, Ren Qiaowei wrote:
> >I tried to use generic structure and macro, but many members of generic
> >struct insn are not used for MPX,

I think that's ok - there are a lot of examples in the kernel where only
a subset of the struct members are used by a particular functionality.

> Because only struct insn_field and several macros may be replaced
> with generic version, I guess it maybe be confused easily to include
> generic insn header. What do you think about it?

Yes, I think the idea is to use and, if needed, extend the generic
functionality instead of growing our own here and there for obvious
benefits.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
--
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/