linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 02/12] PAT 64b: Basic PAT implementation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:50:10 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, ebiederm@...ssion.com, rdreier@...co.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, gregkh@...e.de, airlied@...net.ie,
	davej@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, arjan@...radead.org,
	jesse.barnes@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/12] PAT 64b: Basic PAT implementation

Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com> writes:

> Checking the manual for this. You are right, we had missed some steps here.
> Actually, manual says on MP, PAT MSR on all CPUs must be consistent (even when
> they are not really using it in their page tables.
> So, this will change the init and shutdown parts significantly and there may be
> some challenges with CPU offline and KEXEC. We will redo this part in next
> iteration.

Well the normal kexec path is no worse then reboot.  The kdump path is a
mess but only a minor one, and with us only changing the UC- case we
can probably just ignore it and leave the system started with that
pat register set to WC :)

What we are doing really should be no worse the MTRR setup except
that disabling it at reboot is polite.

CPU online and offline that is weird, but so far it is always weird,
and I don't think ever quite correct.

Eric
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/