On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Qiaowei Ren wrote: > This patch sets bound violation fields of siginfo struct in #BR > exception handler by decoding the user instruction and constructing > the faulting pointer. > > This patch does't use the generic decoder, and implements a limited > special-purpose decoder to decode MPX instructions, simply because the > generic decoder is very heavyweight not just in terms of performance > but in terms of interface -- because it has to. My question still stands why using the existing decoder is an issue. Performance is a complete non issue in case of a bounds violation and the interface argument is just silly, really. Thanks, tglx
