linux-kernel - Re: FSGSBASE ABI considerations

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:55:40 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@...e.de>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru>
Subject: Re: FSGSBASE ABI considerations

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 08:05:43PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Hi all-
> 
> Chang wants to get the FSGSBASE patches in.  Here's a bit on a brain
> dump on what I think the relevant considerations are and why I haven't
> sent out my patches.

I'm not sure if it would be relevant input for the descussion, but there's
another issue with FSGSBASE vs LA57:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ddf602b-6c8b-8c1e-ab46-07ed12366593@redhat.com

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov