linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: x86: Unalbe to run x32 processes on the x86

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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:59:34 +0100
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@...tuozzo.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: x86: Unalbe to run x32 processes on the x86_64 kernel

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 07:45:39AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > # first bad commit: [45fc8757d1d2128e342b4e7ef39adedf7752faac] x86:
> > Make the GDT remapping read-only on 64-bit
> 
> Just wondering, does the following commit fix it:
> 
>   5b781c7e317f x86/tls: Forcibly set the accessed bit in TLS segments

It does fix i386 but not x32.

By "x32" I mean CONFIG_X86_X32, by "i386" CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION, contrary to
Andrei's first report.  The naming of the new ABI wasn't too fortunate...

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