linux-kernel - RE: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v5.6

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:41:10 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
CC:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v5.6

> In particular, I didn't check what the priority for the alternatives
> is. Since FSRM being set always implies ERMS being set too, it may be
> that the ERMS case is always picked with the above code.

Is there still some easy way to get gdb to disassemble from /dev/kmem
to see what we ended up with after all the patching?  With address space
randomization and other security bits I'm not certain what still works.

-Tony