[PATCH v8 01/10] x86, mpx: introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific

2014-09-11 Thread Qiaowei Ren
MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in process address space to save bounds information. These tables can take up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the system) even if we clean them up aggressively. Being this huge, we need a way to track their

[PATCH v8 01/10] x86, mpx: introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific

2014-09-11 Thread Qiaowei Ren
MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in process address space to save bounds information. These tables can take up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the system) even if we clean them up aggressively. Being this huge, we need a way to track their