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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: michaels@jungo.com (Michael Shmulevich)
Cc: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl (Maciej W. Rozycki), linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: User applications
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:17:26 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14FxiT-0006XP-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A5AFAC8.CA682600@jungo.com> from "Michael Shmulevich" at Jan 09, 2001 01:49:29 PM

> promoted to the syscall status? What is the situation that a user in its program
> would like
> to call cacheflush() ? Unless, of course, he is doing DoS.

A cache flush is not a denial of service attack. Its no less effective than a
1Mb memcpy 

> I can understand why we need this in kernel, for context switch, for example, but
> as a syscall?...

Self modifying code, dynamic compilation, glibc trampolines

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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Michael Shmulevich <michaels@jungo.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: User applications
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:17:26 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14FxiT-0006XP-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
Message-ID: <20010109121726.nDBC-i8-UKG9-y5kzIeNDXsdxbAcjOEMvYmfV_9hwL8@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A5AFAC8.CA682600@jungo.com> from "Michael Shmulevich" at Jan 09, 2001 01:49:29 PM

> promoted to the syscall status? What is the situation that a user in its program
> would like
> to call cacheflush() ? Unless, of course, he is doing DoS.

A cache flush is not a denial of service attack. Its no less effective than a
1Mb memcpy 

> I can understand why we need this in kernel, for context switch, for example, but
> as a syscall?...

Self modifying code, dynamic compilation, glibc trampolines

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-09 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-08  9:40 User applications Carsten Langgaard
2001-01-08 13:30 ` Michael Shmulevich
2001-01-08 13:52   ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-01-08 14:14   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-08 14:14     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-08 14:16     ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-01-08 16:03       ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-08 15:07     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-08 15:21       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-08 15:21         ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-08 15:40         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-08 16:27           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-08 16:43             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-08 16:41               ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-08 16:05       ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-08 16:23         ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-01-08 16:30           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-08 16:50             ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-01-08 17:56               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-08 16:40           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-08 17:42             ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-08 17:58               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-09 11:49                 ` Michael Shmulevich
2001-01-09 12:15                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-01-09 12:17                   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-01-09 12:17                     ` Alan Cox
2001-01-09 13:00                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-08 16:34         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-08 14:16   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-08 16:25 ` Ralf Baechle

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