From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dealing with the NMI mess
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:59:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150724145901.GB3612@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150724103127.3c3f4693@gandalf.local.home>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:31:27AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:21:28 +0200
> Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>
> > My understanding is that by using RET we can't set the RF flag and #DB
>
> But the RF flag is only set for instruction (executing) breakpoints. It
> is not set for data (RW) ones.
True but these also are the most complicated to deal with. The data
accesses can always be emulated (not what I'm suggesting here) while
instructions are much harder to emulate.
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-24 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-23 20:21 Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-23 20:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-23 20:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-23 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-23 21:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-23 21:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-23 21:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-23 21:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-23 21:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-23 21:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-23 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-24 8:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-24 9:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-24 11:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 12:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-24 13:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 13:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-24 13:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-24 13:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-24 14:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 14:59 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2015-07-24 15:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 15:26 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-24 15:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-24 15:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-24 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-24 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-24 19:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 19:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-24 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-24 20:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-24 21:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 21:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-30 15:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-30 21:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-30 21:58 ` Brian Gerst
2015-07-30 22:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-07-31 4:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-07-31 5:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-31 7:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-31 8:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-07-31 9:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-31 10:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-07-31 10:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-31 10:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-07 5:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-09-07 7:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-07 8:19 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-09-07 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-09-07 17:01 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-09-07 17:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-07 19:30 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-09-07 21:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-08 16:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-07-24 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-24 15:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 15:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-24 15:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-24 16:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 16:08 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-24 16:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 16:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-24 16:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-24 17:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-24 17:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-24 17:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-30 15:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-24 17:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-23 20:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-23 20:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-23 21:07 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-23 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-23 21:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-07-23 21:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-23 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-23 21:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-23 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-23 21:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-23 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-24 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-24 11:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-23 21:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-23 21:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-23 21:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-24 16:33 ` Raymond Jennings
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