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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 | |||
| 7 | references, for those references whose compile-time normal intentions are | 7 | references, for those references whose compile-time normal intentions are |
| 8 | usurped at runtime due to buffer overflow or underflow. | 8 | usurped at runtime due to buffer overflow or underflow. |
| 9 | 9 | ||
| 10 | You can tell if your CPU supports MPX by looking in /proc/cpuinfo: | ||
| 11 | |||
| 12 | cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ' mpx ' | ||
| 13 | |||
| 10 | For more information, please refer to Intel(R) Architecture Instruction | 14 | For more information, please refer to Intel(R) Architecture Instruction |
| 11 | Set Extensions Programming Reference, Chapter 9: Intel(R) Memory Protection | 15 | Set Extensions Programming Reference, Chapter 9: Intel(R) Memory Protection |
| 12 | Extensions. | 16 | Extensions. |
| 13 | 17 | ||
| 14 | Note: Currently no hardware with MPX ISA is available but it is always | 18 | Note: As of December 2014, no hardware with MPX is available but it is |
| 15 | possible to use SDE (Intel(R) Software Development Emulator) instead, which | 19 | possible to use SDE (Intel(R) Software Development Emulator) instead, which |
| 16 | can be downloaded from | 20 | can be downloaded from |
| 17 | http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator | 21 | http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator |