Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:12:00 -0800 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 00/17] Enable FSGSBASE instructions |
| |
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:29:17PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Chang S. Bae wrote: > > > > Updates from v8 [10]: > > * Internalized the interrupt check in the helper functions (Andy L.) > > * Simplified GS base helper functions (Tony L.) > > * Changed the patch order to put the paranoid path changes before the > > context switch changes (Tony L.) > > * Fixed typos (Randy D.) and massaged a few sentences in the documentation > > * Massaged the FSGSBASE enablement message > > That still lacks what Andy requested quite some time ago in the V8 thread: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/034aaf3a-a93d-ec03-0bbd-068e1905b774@kernel.org/ > > "I also think that, before this series can have my ack, it needs an > actual gdb maintainer to chime in, publicly, and state that they have > thought about and tested the ABI changes and that gdb still works on > patched kernels with and without FSGSBASE enabled. I realize that there > were all kinds of discussions, but they were all quite theoretical, and > I think that the actual patches need to be considered by people who > understand the concerns. Specific test cases would be nice, too." > > What's the state of this?
Adding Markus.
-Andi
| |