From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>, Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] s390: add system call to run tasks with modified branch prediction
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:50:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <299df1a8-f78d-15be-7217-6f201ea849c7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c80554d9-a7e0-00cf-9f03-b16ce34205c5@de.ibm.com>
On 17/01/2018 12:14, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>
>
> On 01/17/2018 11:03 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 01/17/2018 10:48 AM, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
>>> rc = syscall(__NR_s390_modify_bp);
>>> if (rc) {
>>> perror("s390_modify_bp");
>>> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>>> }
>>
>> Isn't this traditionally done through personality or prctl?
>
> I think we want this per thread (and not per process). So I assume personality
> will not work out. Can a prctl be done per thread?
Yes, prctls can be either per-process (e.g. PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER or
PR_SET_DUMPABLE) or per-thread (e.g. PR_SET_NAME or PR_SET_SECCOMP).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-17 9:48 [PATCH 0/6] s390: improve speculative execution handling Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 9:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] s390/alternative: use a copy of the facility bit mask Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 13:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-17 14:24 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-01-17 9:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] s390: implement nospec_[load|ptr] Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 12:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-01-17 14:52 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-17 13:58 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-17 14:04 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 9:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] s390: add options to change branch prediction behaviour for the kernel Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-18 9:52 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-01-19 4:53 ` QingFeng Hao
2018-01-17 9:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] s390: add system call to run tasks with modified branch prediction Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 10:03 ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-17 10:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-17 11:14 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 11:50 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-01-17 11:55 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 13:25 ` Heiko Carstens
2018-01-17 9:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: s390: wire up seb feature Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 11:18 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 11:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-17 11:28 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 11:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 11:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-17 11:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-17 11:39 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 13:44 ` [PATCH v2] KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 13:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-17 21:43 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-18 6:27 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-18 9:59 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-01-18 10:09 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 9:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] s390: scrub registers on kernel entry and KVM exit Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-19 6:29 ` QingFeng Hao
2018-01-19 7:57 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-19 8:27 ` QingFeng Hao
2018-01-17 12:00 ` [PATCH 0/6] s390: improve speculative execution handling Cornelia Huck
2018-01-17 12:05 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 13:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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