Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] x86, mpx: add MPX specific mmap interface

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/27/2014 10:34 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> I'm claiming that we need COW behavior for the bounds tables, at least
>> by default.  If userspace knows enough about the ways that it is using
>> the tables and knows how to share them, let it go to town.  The kernel
>> will permit this kind of usage model, but we simply won't be helping
>> with the management of the tables when userspace creates them.
>
> Actually, this is another reason we need to mark VMAs as being
> MPX-related explicitly instead of inferring it from the tables.  If
> userspace does something really specialized like this, the kernel does
> not want to confuse these VMAs the ones it created.
>

Good point.

--Andy
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