Intel(R) Memory protection bound information are located in register
to be tested using the MPX new instructions. Since the number of
bound registers are limited a table is used to provide storage for
bounds during run-time.
In order to investigate the contents of the MPX bound table two new
commands are added to GDB. "show mpx bound" and "set mpx bound" are
used to display and set values on the MPX bound table.
2015-04-20 Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
Mircea Gherzan <mircea.gherzan@intel.com>
* i386-tdep.c (MPX_BASE_MASK, MPX_BD_MASK, MPX_BT_MASK, MPX_BD_MASK_32,
MPX_BT_MASK_32): New macros.
(i386_mpx_set_bounds): New function that implements
the command "set-mpx-bound".
(i386_mpx_enabled) Helper function to test MPX availability.
(i386_mpx_bd_base) Helper function to calculate the base directory
address. (i386_mpx_get_bt_entry) Helper function to access a bound
table entry. (i386_mpx_print_bounds) Effectively display bound
information. (_initialize_i386_tdep): Qdd new commands
to commands "set mpx" and "show mpx". (_initialize_i386_tdep):
Add "bound" to the commands "show mpx" and "set mpx" commands.
(mpx_set_cmdlist and mpx_show_cmdlist):
list for the new prefixed "set mpx" and "show mpx" commands.
* NEWS: List new commands for MPX support.
testsuite:
* gdb.arch/i386-mpx-map.c: New file.
* gdb.arch/i386-mpx-map.exp: New File.
doc:
* gdb.texinfo (i386): Add documentation about "show mpx bound"
and "set mpx bound".
