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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:01:06 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, qiaowei.ren@...el.com,
luto@...nel.org, adam.buchbinder@...il.com, mst@...hat.com,
mhiramat@...nel.org, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, mingo@...nel.org,
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corbet@....net, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/mpx] x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to get segment
descriptor
On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:26:05PM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> At the moment MPX and UMIP are using the insn-eval decoder to determine
> linear addresses.
If we're keeping a whole instruction decoder in the kernel, it better
be designed generically enough and usable (and used) by everything that
needs it.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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