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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

      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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