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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh-8fk3Idey6ehBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] Fix: x86: Add missing core serializing instruction on migration
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:51:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1510530707.12797.42.camel@au1.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510529164.12797.41.camel-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>

On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 10:26 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 10:03 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > x86 has a missing core serializing instruction in migration scenarios.
> > 
> > Given that x86-32 can return to user-space with sysexit, and x86-64
> > through sysretq and sysretl, which are not core serializing, the
> > following user-space self-modifiying code (JIT) scenario can occur:
> 
> Is this about load/store consistency ? In this case, don't you also
> have problems with get/put_user and not just going to userspace ?

Ah forget it, I saw Linus earlier messages.

Cheers,
Ben.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-12 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-11 15:03 [RFC PATCH v2] Fix: x86: Add missing core serializing instruction on migration Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-11-11 15:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-11-12 23:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]   ` <1510529164.12797.41.camel-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-12 23:51     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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