From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/4] x86/kexec: Invalidate GDT/IDT from relocate_kernel() instead of earlier
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 09:48:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e48a0ca808c9ec0520fe7769a4e44a86fbcedb6.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250326142404.256980-4-dwmw2@infradead.org>
On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 14:16 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
>
> Reduce the window during which exceptions are unhandled, by leaving the
> GDT/IDT in place all the way into the relocate_kernel() function, until
> the moment that %cr3 gets replaced.
Seems the difference is only couple of instructions. Anyway ...
>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-01 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-26 14:16 [PATCH v9 0/4] x86/kexec: Add exception handling for relocate_kernel David Woodhouse
2025-03-26 14:16 ` [PATCH v9 1/4] x86/kexec: Add 8250 serial port output David Woodhouse
2025-04-10 11:13 ` [tip: x86/asm] " tip-bot2 for David Woodhouse
2025-03-26 14:16 ` [PATCH v9 2/4] x86/kexec: Add 8250 MMIO " David Woodhouse
2025-04-10 11:13 ` [tip: x86/asm] " tip-bot2 for David Woodhouse
2025-03-26 14:16 ` [PATCH v9 3/4] x86/kexec: Invalidate GDT/IDT from relocate_kernel() instead of earlier David Woodhouse
2025-04-01 9:48 ` Huang, Kai [this message]
2025-04-01 9:53 ` David Woodhouse
2025-04-10 11:12 ` [tip: x86/asm] " tip-bot2 for David Woodhouse
2025-03-26 14:16 ` [PATCH v9 4/4] selftests/kexec: Add x86_64 selftest for kexec-jump and exception handling David Woodhouse
2025-04-10 11:12 ` [tip: x86/asm] " tip-bot2 for David Woodhouse
2025-04-10 7:26 ` [PATCH v9 0/4] x86/kexec: Add exception handling for relocate_kernel David Woodhouse
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