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
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