From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: L1D-Fault KVM mitigation
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:06:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180424160617.GC14273@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1804241256220.1679@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
> Aside of that NMIs are an interesting problem as well. You certainly don't
> want to do a synchronization dance from NMI, but ignoring NMI if you are
> paranoid is not working either because it can make very interesting data
> cache hot depending on the stuff which is monitored.
Like what interesting data?
AFAIK NMIs do access only some non interesting kernel data structures,
and potentially the current context if you're talking about perf's stack walking.
The current context would of course already be leakable without NMIs.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-24 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-24 9:06 [MODERATED] L1D-Fault KVM mitigation Joerg Roedel
2018-04-24 9:35 ` [MODERATED] " Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-24 9:48 ` David Woodhouse
2018-04-24 11:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-24 11:16 ` David Woodhouse
2018-04-24 15:10 ` Jon Masters
2018-05-23 9:45 ` David Woodhouse
2018-05-24 9:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-24 14:14 ` Jon Masters
2018-05-24 15:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-24 15:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-24 15:38 ` [MODERATED] " Jiri Kosina
2018-05-24 17:22 ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-24 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-24 23:18 ` [MODERATED] Encrypted Message Tim Chen
2018-05-24 23:28 ` [MODERATED] Re: L1D-Fault KVM mitigation Linus Torvalds
2018-05-25 8:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-28 14:43 ` [MODERATED] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-25 18:22 ` [MODERATED] Encrypted Message Tim Chen
2018-05-26 19:14 ` L1D-Fault KVM mitigation Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-26 20:43 ` [MODERATED] " Andi Kleen
2018-05-26 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-27 18:25 ` Andi Kleen
2018-05-27 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-27 18:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-27 19:13 ` [MODERATED] " Andrew Cooper
2018-05-27 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-27 19:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-27 22:26 ` [MODERATED] " Andrew Cooper
2018-05-28 6:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-28 12:26 ` [MODERATED] " Andrew Cooper
2018-05-28 14:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-28 15:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-28 17:15 ` [MODERATED] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-27 15:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-27 16:26 ` [MODERATED] " Linus Torvalds
2018-05-27 18:31 ` Andi Kleen
2018-05-29 19:29 ` [MODERATED] Encrypted Message Tim Chen
2018-05-29 21:14 ` L1D-Fault KVM mitigation Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-30 16:38 ` [MODERATED] Encrypted Message Tim Chen
2018-05-24 15:44 ` [MODERATED] Re: L1D-Fault KVM mitigation Andi Kleen
2018-05-24 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-24 15:59 ` David Woodhouse
2018-05-24 16:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-24 16:51 ` David Woodhouse
2018-05-24 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-25 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2018-04-24 10:30 ` [MODERATED] Re: ***UNCHECKED*** " Joerg Roedel
2018-04-24 11:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-24 16:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2018-04-24 12:53 ` [MODERATED] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-03 16:20 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-05-07 17:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-16 8:51 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-05-16 8:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-21 10:06 ` David Woodhouse
2018-05-21 13:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
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