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author | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2014-10-31 14:58:20 -0700 |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2014-11-18 00:58:52 +0100 |
commit | c04e051cccd2446d9ca373628d14b7e732462f5d (patch) | |
tree | fe900bd3094f0e6d8574cde4e238cefc86278191 | |
parent | 6ba48ff46f764414f979d2eacb23c4e6296bcc95 (diff) |
x86: mpx: Give bndX registers actual names
Consider the bndX MPX registers. There 4 registers each
containing a 64-bit lower and a 64-bit upper bound. That's 8*64
bits and we declare it thusly:
struct bndregs_struct {
u64 bndregs[8];
}
Let's say you want to read the upper bound from the MPX register
bnd2 out of the xsave buf. You do:
bndregno = 2;
upper_bound = xsave_buf->bndregs.bndregs[2*bndregno+1];
That kinda sucks. Every time you access it, you need to know:
1. Each bndX register is two entries wide in "bndregs"
2. The lower comes first followed by upper. We do the +1 to get
upper vs. lower.
This replaces the old definition. You can now access them
indexed by the register number directly, and with a meaningful
name for the lower and upper bound:
bndregno = 2;
xsave_buf->bndreg[bndregno].upper_bound;
It's now *VERY* clear that there are 4 registers. The programmer
now doesn't have to care what order the lower and upper bounds
are in, and it's harder to get it wrong.
[ tglx: Changed ub/lb to upper_bound/lower_bound and renamed struct
bndreg_struct to struct bndreg ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Cc: "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141031215820.5EA5E0EC@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index eb71ec794732..0f2263a8ad31 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -374,8 +374,9 @@ struct lwp_struct { u8 reserved[128]; }; -struct bndregs_struct { - u64 bndregs[8]; +struct bndreg { + u64 lower_bound; + u64 upper_bound; } __packed; struct bndcsr_struct { @@ -394,7 +395,7 @@ struct xsave_struct { struct xsave_hdr_struct xsave_hdr; struct ymmh_struct ymmh; struct lwp_struct lwp; - struct bndregs_struct bndregs; + struct bndreg bndreg[4]; struct bndcsr_struct bndcsr; /* new processor state extensions will go here */ } __attribute__ ((packed, aligned (64))); |