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Message-ID: <20140422112312.GB15882@pd.tnic>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:23:12 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@...il.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@...el.com>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
Alexandre Julliard <julliard@...ehq.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: espfix for 64-bit mode *PROTOTYPE*
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:53:36PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:47 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> > Race condition (although with x86 being globally ordered, it probably can't actually happen.) The bitmask is probably the way to go.
>
> Does the race matter? In the worst case you take the lock
> unnecessarily. But yes, the bitmask is easy.
I wonder if it would be workable to use a bit in the espfix PGD to
denote that it has been initialized already... I hear, near NX there's
some room :-)
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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