From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
aarcange@redhat.com, luto@kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, keescook@google.com,
hughd@google.com, jgross@suse.com, x86@kernel.org,
namit@vmware.com
Subject: [PATCH 00/11] Use global pages with PTI
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:44:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180323174447.55F35636@viggo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
The later verions of the KAISER pathces (pre-PTI) allowed the user/kernel
shared areas to be GLOBAL. The thought was that this would reduce the
TLB overhead of keeping two copies of these mappings.
During the switch over to PTI, we seem to have lost our ability to have
GLOBAL mappings. This adds them back.
This adds one major change from the last version of the patch set
(present in the last patch). It makes all kernel text global for non-
PCID systems. This keeps kernel data protected always, but means that
it will be easier to find kernel gadgets via meltdown on old systems
without PCIDs. This heuristic is, I think, a reasonable one and it
keeps us from having to create any new pti=foo options
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
next reply other threads:[~2018-03-23 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 17:44 Dave Hansen [this message]
2018-03-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 01/11] x86/mm: factor out pageattr _PAGE_GLOBAL setting Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 02/11] x86/mm: undo double _PAGE_PSE clearing Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 03/11] x86/mm: introduce "default" kernel PTE mask Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86/espfix: document use of _PAGE_GLOBAL Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 05/11] x86/mm: do not auto-massage page protections Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 19:15 ` Nadav Amit
2018-03-23 19:26 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 19:34 ` Nadav Amit
2018-03-23 19:38 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-24 15:10 ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-24 15:21 ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 06/11] x86/mm: remove extra filtering in pageattr code Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 07/11] x86/mm: comment _PAGE_GLOBAL mystery Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 08/11] x86/mm: do not forbid _PAGE_RW before init for __ro_after_init Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:45 ` [PATCH 09/11] x86/pti: enable global pages for shared areas Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 19:12 ` Nadav Amit
2018-03-23 19:36 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:45 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86/pti: clear _PAGE_GLOBAL for kernel image Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 17:45 ` [PATCH 11/11] x86/pti: leave kernel text global for !PCID Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 18:26 ` [PATCH 00/11] Use global pages with PTI Linus Torvalds
2018-03-24 0:40 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-24 0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-24 0:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-24 11:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-27 13:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-27 16:32 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-27 17:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-27 20:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-27 20:19 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-29 0:17 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-30 12:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-30 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-30 20:26 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-30 20:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-30 21:40 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-31 5:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-31 18:19 ` Dave Hansen
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