linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/15] x86/tlb: Unexport per-CPU tlbstate

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Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:10:46 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/15] x86/tlb: Unexport per-CPU tlbstate

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:36 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> The per-CPU tlbstate contains sensitive information which should be really
> only accessible in core code. It is exported to modules because some inline
> functions which are required by KVM need access to it.
>
> The following series creates regular exported functions for the few things
> which are needed by KVM and hides the struct definition and some low level
> helpers from modules.
>
> The series is also available from git:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel x86/tlb
>
> Thanks,

The whole series is Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>