linux-kernel - Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

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Date:	Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:07:09 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

> 
> I would suggest a slightly different carving.  For one, no TLB flushes.  
> If you can't modify PTEs, why do you need to have TLB flushes?  And I 
> would allow CR0 read / write for code which saves and restores FPU state 

no that is abstracted away by kernel_fpu_begin/end. Modules have no
business doing that themselves

> - possibly even debug register access, although any code which touches 
> DRs could be doing something sneaky.  I'm on the fence about that one.

lets not allow it at all


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