Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 04/10 v2 ] x86/fpu: eager switch PKRU state | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:29:52 +0200 |
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On 18/09/2018 17:11, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 17:07 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 18/09/2018 16:27, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >>>> Likewise, move this to fpu__clear and outside "if >>>> (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU))"? >>> >>> okay. But if there is no FPU we did not save/restore the pkru >>> value. Is >>> this supposed to be an improvement? >> >> Honestly it just seemed "more correct", but now that I think about >> it, >> kernel threads should run with PKRU=0. maybe there's a preexisting >> bug >> that your patch has the occasion to fix. > > I don't think it matters what the PKRU state is > for kernel threads, since kernel PTEs should not > be using protection keys anyway.
What about copy_from/to_user?
Paolo
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