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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:23:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5542B96E.2020400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5542A0FB.50707@zytor.com>

On 04/30/2015 02:39 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This is the microbenchmark I used.
> 
> For the record, Intel's intention going forward is that 0F 1F will
> always be as fast or faster than any other alternative.
> 

I probably should have added that the microbenchmark specifically tests
for an atomic 5-byte NOP (as required by tracepoints etc.)  If the
requirement for 5-byte atomic is dropped there might be faster
combinations, e.g. 66 66 66 90 might work better on some platforms, or
using very long 0F 1F sequences.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-30 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-24  2:15 [PATCH] x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-24  2:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-26 12:34   ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-24  3:58 ` Brian Gerst
2015-04-24  9:59 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-24 10:59   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-24 19:58     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-24 11:27 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-24 12:00   ` Brian Gerst
2015-04-24 16:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-24 17:33       ` Brian Gerst
2015-04-24 17:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-24 17:57           ` Brian Gerst
2015-04-24 20:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-24 20:46   ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-24 20:50     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-24 21:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 21:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 21:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 21:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 21:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 21:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-25  2:17       ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-26 23:36         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-24 20:53   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-25 21:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-26 11:22   ` perf numbers (was: Re: [PATCH] x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue) Borislav Petkov
2015-04-26 23:39   ` [PATCH] x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-27  8:53     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 10:07       ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-27 10:09         ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 11:35       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 12:08         ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-27 12:48           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 14:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-27 15:06           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-27 15:35             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 15:46           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 15:56             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-27 16:04               ` Brian Gerst
2015-04-27 16:10                 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-27 16:00             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-27 16:40               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 18:14                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-27 18:38                   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 18:47                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-27 18:53                       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 19:59                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-27 20:03                           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 20:14                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-28 15:55                               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-28 16:28                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-28 16:58                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-28 17:16                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-28 18:38                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-30 21:39                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-30 23:23                                           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-05-01  9:03                                             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-03 11:51                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 19:11                     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 19:21                       ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-27 19:45                         ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-28 13:40                           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 16:12           ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-27 18:12             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-27 18:47               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-27 14:39     ` Borislav Petkov

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