From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
"Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>,
"Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>,
"Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/17] Enable FSGSBASE instructions
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:30:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200417133021.GT1068@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200414003205.GF397326@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 05:32:05PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Is my attempt at understanding the current situation correct?
>
>Yes.
>
>Nothing breaks, and it's a nice improvement for context switch
>performance, in NMI/PMU performance, and also gives user space two free
>registers to play around with.
Thomas, Andy,
Could you list your outstanding objections to this patchset? I know it
might be rehashing stuff you've already mentioned in this thread but I
think that there's a disconnect between folks and it'll help with
restarting everything.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-17 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 18:15 Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:15 ` [PATCH v9 01/17] x86/ptrace: Prevent ptrace from clearing the FS/GS selector Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:15 ` [PATCH v9 02/17] selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test GS selector on ptracer-induced GS base write Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:15 ` [PATCH v9 03/17] x86/cpu: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:15 ` [PATCH v9 04/17] x86/entry/64: Clean up paranoid exit Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:15 ` [PATCH v9 05/17] x86/entry/64: Switch CR3 before SWAPGS in paranoid entry Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:15 ` [PATCH v9 06/17] x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:15 ` [PATCH v9 07/17] x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 08/17] x86/entry/64: Document GSBASE handling in the paranoid path Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 09/17] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 10/17] x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in helper functions Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 11/17] x86/fsgsbase/64: Use FSGSBASE in switch_to() if available Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 12/17] x86/fsgsbase/64: Use FSGSBASE instructions on thread copy and ptrace Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 13/17] x86/speculation/swapgs: Check FSGSBASE in enabling SWAPGS mitigation Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 14/17] selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test ptracer-induced GS base write with FSGSBASE Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 15/17] x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 16/17] x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2 Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 18:16 ` [PATCH v9 17/17] Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode Chang S. Bae
2019-10-04 22:54 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-11-15 18:29 ` [PATCH v9 00/17] Enable FSGSBASE instructions Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-15 19:12 ` Andi Kleen
2019-11-29 14:56 ` Metzger, Markus T
2019-11-29 16:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-02 8:23 ` Metzger, Markus T
2019-12-04 20:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-10 8:27 ` Metzger, Markus T
2020-02-24 18:02 ` Bae, Chang Seok
2020-04-13 20:03 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 0:32 ` Andi Kleen
2020-04-17 13:30 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2020-04-17 15:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-04-20 14:13 ` Andi Kleen
2020-04-20 17:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-04-21 16:06 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-21 16:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-04-21 20:02 ` Andi Kleen
2020-04-21 17:15 ` Bae, Chang Seok
2020-04-21 19:56 ` Andi Kleen
2020-04-21 20:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-04-21 20:51 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-22 23:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-04-23 4:08 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-25 22:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-04-26 2:52 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-26 10:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-04-14 15:47 ` Bae, Chang Seok
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