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Commit 97efebf1 authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths



There are two basic things that can happen as the result of
a bounds exception (#BR):

	1. We allocate a new bounds table
	2. We pass up a bounds exception to userspace.

This patch adds a trace point for the case where we are
passing the exception up to userspace with a signal.

We are also explicit that we're printing out the inverse of
the 'upper' that we encounter.  If you want to filter, for
instance, you need to ~ the value first.  The reason we do
this is because of how 'upper' is stored in the bounds table.

If a pointer's range is:

	0x1000 -> 0x2000

it is stored in the bounds table as (32-bits here for brevity):

	lower: 0x00001000
	upper: 0xffffdfff

That is so that an all 0's entry:

	lower: 0x00000000
	upper: 0x00000000

corresponds to the "init" bounds which store a *range* of:

	0x00000000 -> 0xffffffff

That is, by far, the common case, and that lets us use the
zero page, or deduplicate the memory, etc... The 'upper'
stored in the table is gibberish to print by itself, so we
print ~upper to get the *actual*, logical, human-readable
value printed out.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150607183703.027BB9B0@viggo.jf.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent e7126cf5
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