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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, luto@amacapital.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] x86: Add documentation for rd/wr fs/gs base
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:14:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4140.1458760485@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458576969-13309-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>

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On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:16:05 -0700, Andi Kleen said:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> v2: Minor updates to documentation requested in review.

> +In addition the kernel needs to explicitly enable these instructions, as it
> +may otherwise not correctly context switch the state. Newer Linux
> +kernels enable this. When the kernel did not enable the instruction
> +they will fault with an #UD exception.

Looks OK for now, since the code hasn't actually landed.  However, once
we know for sure what release, we probably want to replace "Newer" with
"4.N or later" or something - particularly if the man-pages project will
be using this as source material.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-23 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-21 16:16 Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 1/9] x86: Add intrinsics/macros for new rd/wr fs/gs base instructions Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 18:14   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 2/9] x86: Add support for rd/wr fs/gs base Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 18:13   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 19:05     ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 19:22       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 22:05     ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 22:08       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 22:15         ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-22  8:36           ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-03-22 14:40           ` Brian Gerst
2016-04-15  0:06   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 3/9] x86: Make old K8 swapgs workaround conditional Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 4/9] x86: Enumerate kernel FSGS capability in AT_HWCAP2 Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 18:49   ` Brian Gerst
2016-03-21 18:54     ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 19:32       ` Brian Gerst
2016-03-21 19:43         ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 22:10           ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 5/9] x86: Add documentation for rd/wr fs/gs base Andi Kleen
2016-03-23 19:14   ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 6/9] x86: Use rd/wr fs/gs base in arch_prctl Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 18:17   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 7/9] x86: Add self test code for fsgsbase Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 8/9] x86: Support arbitrary fs/gs base in getregs Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 16:16 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86: Save FS/GS base in core dump Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 18:39 ` Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 19:03   ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 19:23     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 19:40       ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 22:05         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 22:11           ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 22:27             ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 22:41               ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 22:47                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 22:52                   ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-21 22:57                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-21 23:02                       ` Andi Kleen

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