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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 tip/master 0/3] kprobes/x86: retpoline: Fix kprobes for retpoline
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:50:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180118185015.GF7844@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1516280587.4937.128.camel@infradead.org>

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 02:03:07PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 05:01 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Side effect: [1/3] will move __x86_indirect_thunk_* functions
> > > in kernel text area. Of course those functions were in the
> > > .text area, but placed in right after _etext. This just moves
> > > it right before the _etext.
> > I assume you tested that with page table isolation on?
> > 
> > The thunks need to be accessible from the trampoline.
> 
> I thought we put it inline in the trampoline.

Yes we did, just want to make sure everything still works.

If it's tested that's fine

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-18 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-18 12:00 [PATCH v1 tip/master 0/3] kprobes/x86: retpoline: Fix kprobes for retpoline Masami Hiramatsu
2018-01-18 12:01 ` [PATCH v1 tip/master 1/3] retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk Masami Hiramatsu
2018-01-18 12:06   ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-18 15:34     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-01-18 12:01 ` [PATCH v1 tip/master 2/3] kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes Masami Hiramatsu
2018-01-18 12:02 ` [PATCH v1 tip/master 3/3] kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk Masami Hiramatsu
2018-01-18 13:01 ` [PATCH v1 tip/master 0/3] kprobes/x86: retpoline: Fix kprobes for retpoline Andi Kleen
2018-01-18 13:03   ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-18 18:50     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2018-01-18 15:36   ` Masami Hiramatsu

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