Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:29:44 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2 |
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:25:29PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Actually the CPUID is superfluous on anything than the executing CPU > since IRET is serializing.
Why not on the executing core too? We're IRET-ting there too.
Which would mean that a dummy empty syscall would be enough too since we need the serialization only.
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