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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@linux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 07/12] x86: remove the syscall_64 fast-path
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:29:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180128092914.dabnzq7arv4bebhn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151703975137.26578.11230688940391207602.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>


* Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:

> Quoting Linus:
> 
>   "Honestly, I'd rather get rid of the fast-path entirely. Compared to
>    all the PTI mess, it's not even noticeable.
> 
>    And if we ever get CPU's that have this all fixed, we can re-visit
>    introducing the fastpath. But this is all very messy and it doesn't
>    seem worth it right now.
> 
>    If we get rid of the fastpath, we can lay out the slow path slightly
>    better, and get rid of some of those jump-overs. And we'd get rid of
>    the ptregs hooks entirely.
> 
>    So we can try to make the "slow" path better while at it, but I
>    really don't think it matters much now in the post-PTI era. Sadly."

Please fix the title to have the proper prefix and to reference the function that 
is actually modified by the patch, i.e. something like:

s/ x86: remove the syscall_64 fast-path
 / x86/entry/64: Remove the entry_SYSCALL_64() fast-path

With the title fixed:

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-28  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-27  7:55 [PATCH v5 00/12] spectre variant1 mitigations for tip/x86/pti Dan Williams
2018-01-27  7:55 ` Dan Williams
2018-01-27  7:55 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] Documentation: document array_idx Dan Williams
2018-01-27  7:55 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] array_idx: sanitize speculative array de-references Dan Williams
2018-01-27  7:55   ` Dan Williams
2018-01-28  8:55   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-28 11:36     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-28 11:36       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-28 16:28     ` Dan Williams
2018-01-28 18:33       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-29 16:45         ` Dan Williams
2018-01-29 16:45           ` Dan Williams
2018-01-28 18:36       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-28 18:36         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-30  6:29         ` Dan Williams
2018-01-30  6:29           ` Dan Williams
2018-01-30 19:38           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-30 20:13             ` Dan Williams
2018-01-30 20:27               ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-31  8:03                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-31 14:13                   ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-31 14:21                     ` Greg KH
2018-01-27  7:55 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] x86: implement array_idx_mask Dan Williams
2018-01-28  9:02   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-27  7:55 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] x86: introduce __uaccess_begin_nospec and ifence Dan Williams
2018-01-28  9:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-28  9:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-29 20:41     ` Dan Williams
2018-01-29 20:41       ` Dan Williams
2018-01-30  6:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-27  7:55 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] x86, __get_user: use __uaccess_begin_nospec Dan Williams
2018-01-28  9:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-28  9:19     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-27  7:55 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] x86, get_user: use pointer masking to limit speculation Dan Williams
2018-01-27  7:55   ` Dan Williams
2018-01-28  9:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-28  9:25     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-27  7:55 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] x86: remove the syscall_64 fast-path Dan Williams
2018-01-28  9:29   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2018-01-28  9:29     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-28 15:22     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-28 15:22       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-27  7:55 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] x86: sanitize sycall table de-references under speculation Dan Williams
2018-01-28  9:36   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-27  7:56 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] vfs, fdtable: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution Dan Williams
2018-01-27  7:56 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] kvm, x86: update spectre-v1 mitigation Dan Williams
     [not found] ` <151703971300.26578.1185595719337719486.stgit-p8uTFz9XbKj2zm6wflaqv1nYeNYlB/vhral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-27  7:56   ` [PATCH v5 11/12] nl80211: sanitize array index in parse_txq_params Dan Williams
2018-01-27  7:56     ` Dan Williams
2018-01-27  7:56 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] x86/spectre: report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1 Dan Williams
2018-01-28  9:50   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-29 22:05     ` Dan Williams
2018-01-31  8:07       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-01 20:23         ` Dan Williams
2018-02-01 20:23           ` Dan Williams
2018-01-27 18:52 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] spectre variant1 mitigations for tip/x86/pti Linus Torvalds
2018-01-27 18:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-27 19:26 ` Dan Williams
2018-01-27 19:26   ` Dan Williams

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