Documentation: x86: convert intel_mpx.txt to reST

This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Documentation/x86/index.rst

@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ x86-specific Documentation
    mtrr
    pat
    protection-keys
+   intel_mpx

Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt → Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst

-1. Intel(R) MPX Overview
-========================
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===========================================
+Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions (MPX)
+===========================================
+
+Intel(R) MPX Overview
+=====================
 
 Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions (Intel(R) MPX) is a new capability
 introduced into Intel Architecture. Intel MPX provides hardware features
@@ -7,7 +13,7 @@ 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:
+You can tell if your CPU supports MPX by looking in /proc/cpuinfo::
 
 	cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep ' mpx '
 
@@ -21,8 +27,8 @@ can be downloaded from
 http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator
 
 
-2. How to get the advantage of MPX
-==================================
+How to get the advantage of MPX
+===============================
 
 For MPX to work, changes are required in the kernel, binutils and compiler.
 No source changes are required for applications, just a recompile.
@@ -84,14 +90,15 @@ Kernel MPX Code:
    is unmapped.
 
 
-3. How does MPX kernel code work
-================================
+How does MPX kernel code work
+=============================
 
 Handling #BR faults caused by MPX
 ---------------------------------
 
 When MPX is enabled, there are 2 new situations that can generate
 #BR faults.
+
   * new bounds tables (BT) need to be allocated to save bounds.
   * bounds violation caused by MPX instructions.
 
@@ -124,9 +131,9 @@ the kernel. It can theoretically be done completely from userspace. Here
 are a few ways this could be done. We don't think any of them are practical
 in the real-world, but here they are.
 
-Q: Can virtual space simply be reserved for the bounds tables so that we
+:Q: Can virtual space simply be reserved for the bounds tables so that we
     never have to allocate them?
-A: MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in
+:A: MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in
     process address space to save bounds information. These tables can take
     up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the system)
     even if we clean them up aggressively. In the worst-case scenario, the
@@ -140,19 +147,19 @@ A: MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in
     consumes 2GB of virtual *AND* physical memory. IOW, it's completely
     infeasible to prepopulate bounds directories.
 
-Q: Can we preallocate bounds table space at the same time memory is
+:Q: Can we preallocate bounds table space at the same time memory is
     allocated which might contain pointers that might eventually need
     bounds tables?
-A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every memory
+:A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every memory
     allocation syscall. This can be done for small, constrained applications.
     But, it isn't practical at a larger scale since a given app has no
     way of controlling how all the parts of the app might allocate memory
     (think libraries). The kernel is really the only place to intercept
     these calls.
 
-Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables allocated
+:Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables allocated
     there in a signal handler instead of in the kernel?
-A: mmap() is not on the list of safe async handler functions and even
+:A: mmap() is not on the list of safe async handler functions and even
     if mmap() would work it still requires locking or nasty tricks to
     keep track of the allocation state there.
 
@@ -167,20 +174,20 @@ If a #BR is generated due to a bounds violation caused by MPX.
 We need to decode MPX instructions to get violation address and
 set this address into extended struct siginfo.
 
-The _sigfault field of struct siginfo is extended as follow:
-
-87		/* SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS */
-88		struct {
-89			void __user *_addr; /* faulting insn/memory ref. */
-90 #ifdef __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO
-91			int _trapno;	/* TRAP # which caused the signal */
-92 #endif
-93			short _addr_lsb; /* LSB of the reported address */
-94			struct {
-95				void __user *_lower;
-96				void __user *_upper;
-97			} _addr_bnd;
-98		} _sigfault;
+The _sigfault field of struct siginfo is extended as follow::
+
+  87		/* SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS */
+  88		struct {
+  89			void __user *_addr; /* faulting insn/memory ref. */
+  90 #ifdef __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO
+  91			int _trapno;	/* TRAP # which caused the signal */
+  92 #endif
+  93			short _addr_lsb; /* LSB of the reported address */
+  94			struct {
+  95				void __user *_lower;
+  96				void __user *_upper;
+  97			} _addr_bnd;
+  98		} _sigfault;
 
 The '_addr' field refers to violation address, and new '_addr_and'
 field refers to the upper/lower bounds when a #BR is caused.
@@ -209,9 +216,10 @@ Adding new prctl commands
 
 Two new prctl commands are added to enable and disable MPX bounds tables
 management in kernel.
+::
 
-155	#define PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT	43
-156	#define PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT	44
+  155	#define PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT	43
+  156	#define PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT	44
 
 Runtime library in userspace is responsible for allocation of bounds
 directory. So kernel have to use XSAVE instruction to get the base
@@ -223,8 +231,8 @@ into struct mm_struct to be used in future during PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT
 command execution.
 
 
-4. Special rules
-================
+Special rules
+=============
 
 1) If userspace is requesting help from the kernel to do the management
 of bounds tables, it may not create or modify entries in the bounds directory.