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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: skip check for spurious faults for non-present faults
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 09:54:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537642D0.60105@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2edd49ee-077e-4126-b09a-077b7f6be553@email.android.com>

On 05/15/2014 02:20 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm trying to wrap my head around any forward compatibility
> concerns... if we misidentify a fault as spurious that would be bad.

FWIW, I did go through the bullets in the SDM's "4.10.4.3 Optional
Invalidation".  The only condition not covered by this patch is the one
that talks about "CR4.SMEP = 0...".

But, I don't know of any case where we take a userspace page and make it
supervisor-only, so I don't think this is possible now.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-16 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-12 10:29 [PATCH] x86: skip check for spurious faults for non-present faults David Vrabel
2014-05-15 20:50 ` Dave Hansen
2014-05-15 21:20   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-16 16:54     ` Dave Hansen [this message]

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