From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:25:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6331d08-d5fb-4ec5-80e2-ff32d3ce93ce@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131127222104.GA748@pd.tnic>
Actually the CPUID is superfluous on anything than the executing CPU since IRET is serializing.
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:02:50PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> For the record, this is the entire patch necessary to do the
>> sync_cores() system call -- and no potential interactions with
>security
>> frameworks or whatnot, simply because no security-sensitive
>operations
>> are performed of any kind.
>>
>> Comments/opinions appreciated.
>
>And we do this in the kernel not because userspace can't execute
>sync_core() aka CPUID but because for userspace it is hard to IPI all
>cores easily?
--
Sent from my mobile phone. Please pardon brevity and lack of formatting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-27 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-26 0:37 [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2 Andi Kleen
2013-11-26 19:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-11-26 19:11 ` Andi Kleen
2013-11-26 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-27 19:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-11-27 22:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-11-27 22:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-27 23:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 22:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 23:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 23:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 23:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-27 22:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-27 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-28 2:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-28 2:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-28 9:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-11-27 23:44 ` Andi Kleen
2013-11-29 18:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-29 19:54 ` Andi Kleen
2013-11-29 20:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-29 20:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-29 20:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-29 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-30 14:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-29 23:24 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-11-30 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-03 18:49 ` [PATCH?] uprobes: change uprobe_write_opcode() to modify the page directly Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-03 19:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-03 20:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 20:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-03 20:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-03 20:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-03 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-04 11:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 11:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 16:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-04 16:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 16:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-04 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-04 17:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-05 17:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-05 17:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-05 18:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 18:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-05 8:28 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-12-03 22:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-03 19:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-30 15:20 ` [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2 Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-30 16:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-30 17:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-30 5:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-30 14:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
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