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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt index 6ca6e2bd9ae9..818518a3ff01 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt @@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ that can be used in conjunction with compiler changes to check memory references, for those references whose compile-time normal intentions are usurped at runtime due to buffer overflow or underflow. +You can tell if your CPU supports MPX by looking in /proc/cpuinfo: + + cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ' mpx ' + For more information, please refer to Intel(R) Architecture Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference, Chapter 9: Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions. -Note: Currently no hardware with MPX ISA is available but it is always +Note: As of December 2014, no hardware with MPX is available but it is possible to use SDE (Intel(R) Software Development Emulator) instead, which can be downloaded from http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator |