From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 12:50:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530105036.GG17821@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=5DK7XUwQZvC8tSM4vXu5LObBHjQ@mail.gmail.com>
* Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:
> (And whose idea was it to have pushing the error code be optional?)
I think it must have been some genius trying to save 0.1 cycles while
spending a thousand transistors on it in the critical path and
introducing a dozen crashes and security holes into various kernels
;-)
Thanks,
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-30 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-30 3:48 [PATCH v2 00/10] Remove syscall instructions at fixed addresses Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] x86-64: Give vvars their own page Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] x86-64: Replace vsyscall gettimeofday fallback with int 0xcc Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] x86-64: Map the HPET NX Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys) Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] x86-64: Emulate vsyscalls Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 7:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-30 10:43 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-30 7:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:57 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-30 10:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:35 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-30 12:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 12:25 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-30 14:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 7:51 ` Jan Beulich
2011-05-30 8:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 2:29 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] x86-64: Randomize int 0xcc magic al values at boot Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-30 7:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-30 10:40 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-30 10:50 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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