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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
	edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/4] Programmatic nestable expedited grace periods
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:31:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EA207E.3090502@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150222035806.GA4452@thin>

>>
>> To show the boot time, I'm using the timestamp of the "Write protecting" line,
>> that's pretty much the last thing we print prior to ring 3 execution.
>
> That's a little sad; we ought to be write-protecting kernel read-only
> data as *early* as possible.

well... if you are compromised before the first ring 3 instruction...
.... you have a slightly bigger problem than where in the kernel we write protect things.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-22 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-20  5:08 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/4] Programmatic nestable expedited grace periods Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20  5:09 ` [PATCH v2 RFC tip/core/rcu 1/4] rcu: Provide rcu_expedite_gp() and rcu_unexpedite_gp() Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20  5:09   ` [PATCH v2 RFC tip/core/rcu 2/4] rcu: Add rcu_expedite_gp() and rcu_unexpedite_gp() to rcutorture Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20  5:09   ` [PATCH v2 RFC tip/core/rcu 3/4] rcu: Update from rcu_expedited variable to rcu_gp_is_expedited() Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20  5:09   ` [PATCH v2 RFC tip/core/rcu 4/4] rcu: Add Kconfig option to expedite grace periods during boot Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20  9:11 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/4] Programmatic nestable expedited grace periods Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-20 16:37   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20 16:54     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-20 17:14       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20 17:32         ` Arjan van de Ven
2015-02-20 17:43           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-20 17:45             ` Arjan van de Ven
2015-02-21 16:08               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-22  1:43                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20 18:38             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-21 16:11               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-21 17:59                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20 18:27           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-20 18:29             ` Arjan van de Ven
2015-02-20 18:39               ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-21 15:51             ` Arjan van de Ven
2015-02-21 18:00               ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-22  3:58               ` Josh Triplett
2015-02-22  6:10                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-22 18:31                 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2015-02-22 18:48                   ` Josh Triplett
2015-02-21  6:04       ` Josh Triplett
2015-02-21 15:12         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-02-21 23:58           ` Paul E. McKenney

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