linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] PTI support for x86-32

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Message-ID: <90748aea-6fc0-48a5-d154-c98465fea42c@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:02:28 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
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        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
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        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <llong@...hat.com>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] PTI support for x86-32

On 01/16/2018 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> The code has not run on bare-metal yet, I'll test that in
>> the next days once I setup a 32 bit box again. I also havn't
>> tested Wine and DosEMU yet, so this might also be broken.
> .. and please run all the segment and syscall selfchecks that Andy has written.
> 
> But yes, checking bare metal, and checking the "odd" applications like
> Wine and dosemu (and kvm etc) within the PTI kernel is certainly a
> good idea.

I tried to document a list of the "gotchas" that tripped us up during
the 64-bit effort under "Testing":

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/pti&id=01c9b17bf673b05bb401b76ec763e9730ccf1376

NMIs were a biggie too.