Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 00/60] x86/kpti: Kernel Page Table Isolation (was KAISER) | From | Boris Ostrovsky <> | Date | Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:21:40 -0500 |
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On 12/04/2017 01:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 6:07 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: >>> Kernel Page Table Isolation, prefix kpti_ >>> >>> Linus, your call :) >> I think you probably chose the right name here. The alternatives sound >> intriguing, but probably not the right thing to do. >> >> How much of this is considered worth trying to integrate early? > Probably the entry changes, but we need to sort out that fixmap issue first > and that affects the entry changes as well. Give me a day or two and I can > tell you.
This series breaks Xen PV.
When I tested it last time it was patch 17 (of this series). I don't know whether it breaks now due to the same patch, I haven't had a chance to look into this yet, sorry.
-boris
>> Clearly I'm not taking all of it. > I did not expect that. > > Thanks, > > tglx
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