On 06/18/2014 02:44 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> When user memory region is unmapped, related bound tables
> become unused and need to be released also. This patch cleanups
> these unused bound tables through hooking unmap path.

This is not a full review at all -- I don't understand the mm stuff well
enough.

> +
> +     /*
> +      * If this bounds directory entry is nonzero, and meanwhile
> +      * the valid bit is zero, one SIGSEGV will be produced due to
> +      * this unexpected situation.
> +      */
> +     if (!(*valid) && *bt_addr)
> +             force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);

force_sig from a syscall handler seems rather weird.

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