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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:07:35 -0700
From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, tony.luck@...el.com,
ak@...ux.intel.com, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
kvm@...r.kernel.org,
Alyssa Milburn <alyssa.milburn@...ux.intel.com>,
Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@...ux.intel.com>,
antonio.gomez.iglesias@...ux.intel.com,
Alyssa Milburn <alyssa.milburn@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:10:41PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc
> > +SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(mds_verw_sel)
> > + UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED
> > + ANNOTATE_NOENDBR
> > + .word __KERNEL_DS
>
> You need another .align here. Otherwise subsequent code will still
> start in this cacheline and defeat the purpose of trying to keep it
> separate.
Right.
> > +SYM_CODE_END(mds_verw_sel);
>
> Thinking about it, should this really be CODE and not a data entry?
Would that require adding a data equivalent of .entry.text and update
KPTI to keep it mapped? Or is there an easier option?
> P.S. Please CC on the full series. Far less effort than fishing the
> rest off lore.
I didn't realize get_maintainer.pl isn't doing that already. Proposing
below update to MAINTAINERS:
---
From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:50:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update entry for X86 HARDWARE VULNERABILITIES
Add Andrew Cooper to maintainers of hardware vulnerabilities
mitigations.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2894f0777537..bf8c8707b8f8 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -23382,6 +23382,7 @@ M: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
M: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
M: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
M: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
+M: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
R: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/
--
2.34.1
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