Messages in this thread | | | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | [RFC PATCH 0/4] x86/alternative: Add ALTERNATIVE_3 | Date | Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:23:22 +0100 |
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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Hi,
here's a patchset which adds an ALTERNATIVE_3() macro so that we can finally do RDTSCP in rdtsc_ordered() but also not break all the possible qemu CPU models out there like some old pentium which doesn't have even MFENCE. Which is the reason for the three-insn alternative macro, btw.
The stuff works here on all machines I've tested it on but since we're too close to the merge window, I'll hold on to it for another round and let it soak slowly into 2019. Thus the RFC tag. In the meantime, it'll collect your comments and ideas.
:-)
Thanks!
Borislav Petkov (4): x86/alternatives: Add macro comments x86/alternatives: Print containing function x86/alternatives: Add an ALTERNATIVE_3() macro x86/TSC: Use RDTSCP
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 16 ++++++++++-- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 4 +-- 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
-- 2.19.1
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