linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX

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Message-ID: <530E5A7D.9060902@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:19:57 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:	Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@...el.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
CC:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX

On 02/23/2014 05:27 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> +The other case that generates a #BR is when a BNDSTX instruction
> +attempts to save bounds to a BD entry marked as invalid. This is
> +an indication that no BT exists for this entry. In this case the
> +fault handler will allocate a new BT.

Hi Qiaowei,

Can you make an effort to move these comments over to the code?  The
bounds-table allocation function is a much more appropriate place for
this text than the Documentation/ file.
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