From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86_64: A real proposal for iret-less return to kernel
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 00:17:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140521221728.GM25130@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWA1X-X7W7MZn5eYEO-hxWWYk3APORmH-1dw=5ua1dG+A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 03:13:16PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Why is this necessary?
>
> If the MCE hit kernel code, then we're going to die anyway. If the
> MCE hit user code, then we should be in a completely sensible context
> and we can just send the signal.
Are we guaranteed that the first thing the process will execute when
scheduled back in are the signal handlers?
And besides, maybe we don't even want to allow to do the switch_to() but
kill it while it is sleeping.
(I know, we're that nasty :-))
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-21 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-21 0:53 Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 2:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-21 2:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-21 2:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 9:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 15:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 16:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 17:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 18:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 12:51 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-21 15:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 16:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 21:25 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-21 21:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 21:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 21:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 21:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 21:59 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-21 21:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 22:01 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-21 22:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 22:17 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-05-21 22:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 22:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 22:18 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-21 22:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 22:32 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-21 22:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 22:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 22:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 23:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 23:05 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-21 23:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 23:19 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-21 23:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-21 23:40 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-21 23:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-22 0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-22 8:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-22 0:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-21 21:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 21:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-21 21:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 21:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 22:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-21 22:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-21 22:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-21 22:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-26 10:18 ` [PATCH] x86, MCE: Flesh out when to panic comment Borislav Petkov
2014-05-26 10:51 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-26 11:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-26 16:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-26 17:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-26 17:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-27 21:53 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-27 22:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-27 22:33 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-21 21:50 ` [RFC] x86_64: A real proposal for iret-less return to kernel Jiri Kosina
2014-05-21 18:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 22:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-21 22:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-21 22:25 ` Andi Kleen
2014-05-21 22:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-21 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-21 23:23 ` Andi Kleen
2014-05-21 23:34 ` Linus Torvalds
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