From: Dave Hansen Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:58:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86: mpx: Give bndX registers actual names X-Git-Tag: v3.19-rc1~154^2~16 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c04e051cccd2446d9ca373628d14b7e732462f5d;p=linux.git 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 Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Qiaowei Ren Cc: "Yu, Fenghua" Cc: Dave Hansen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141031215820.5EA5E0EC@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- 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)));