RE: [PATCH v6 07/10] x86, mpx: decode MPX instruction to get bound violation information

From: Ren, Qiaowei
Date: Wed Jun 18 2014 - 21:13:57 EST


On 2014-06-18, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:44:13PM +0800, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
>
> This whole insn decoding machinery above looks like adapted from
> arch/x86/lib/insn.c. You should merge it with the generic code in
> insn.c instead of homegrowing it here only for the purposes of MPX.
> And if it doesn't work for your needs, you should should extend the
> generic code to do so. I think we even talked about this last time.
>
> Also, make sure you run all your patches through checkpatch.pl before
> submitting.
>
Petkov, as we discussed on initial version of this patchset, general insn framework didn't work out well and I have tried to use generic struct insn, insn_field, etc. for obvious benefits.

Thanks,
Qiaowei