RE: [PATCH v7 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables

From: Ren, Qiaowei
Date: Wed Jul 23 2014 - 21:27:59 EST




On 2014-07-24, Hansen, Dave wrote:
> On 07/23/2014 05:49 PM, Ren, Qiaowei wrote:
>> I can check a lot of debug information when one VMA and related
>> bounds tables are allocated and freed through adding a lot of
>> print() like log into kernel/runtime. Do you think this is enough?
>
> I thought the entire reason we grabbed a VM_ flag was to make it
> possible to figure out without resorting to this.

All cleanup work certainly depends on this VM_ flag. In addition, as we discussed, this new VM_ flag can mainly have runtime know how much memory is occupied by MPX.

Thanks,
Qiaowei

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