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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dan Rue <dan.rue@linaro.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>,
	"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
	<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: selftests/x86/fsgsbase_64 test problem
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:30:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b0a3cea-d951-d3be-16de-a0e9d50cb2ba@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F6FCC323-841E-4337-B1E7-8F2E502552D6@amacapital.net>

On 01/29/18 10:26, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>> That will utterly suck on non-UMIP machines that have
>>> hypervisor-provided UMIP emulation.
>>
>> Is that a valid thing to optimize for, especially given that paranoid
>> entries aren't the most common anyway?
> 
> A bunch of people seem to care about NMI performance for perf.
>

That wasn't really the question...

> And the current patch set works without this trick.

But I believe the tricks it uses are fragile.

> FWIW, if we switch all entries to the entry text trampoline, we get direct percpu access for free.

That might be a better option.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-29 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-26 15:36 Dan Rue
2018-01-26 16:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-26 18:59   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-26 19:46     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-26 22:38       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-26 22:42         ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-28 19:21           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-29  9:13             ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-01-29 16:37               ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-29 18:12                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-01-29 18:26                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-29 18:30                     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2018-02-27 22:59                       ` Dan Rue
2018-01-26 22:56         ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-28 19:21           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-26 22:51       ` H. Peter Anvin

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