Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 12/21] x86/pti: Use PTI stack instead of trampoline stack

Andy Lutomirski
2020-11-16T16:58:20Z

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 6:47 AM Alexandre Chartre
<alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> When entering the kernel from userland, use the per-task PTI stack
> instead of the per-cpu trampoline stack. Like the trampoline stack,
> the PTI stack is mapped both in the kernel and in the user page-table.
> Using a per-task stack which is mapped into the kernel and the user
> page-table instead of a per-cpu stack will allow executing more code
> before switching to the kernel stack and to the kernel page-table.

Why?

I can't immediately evaluate how nasty the page table setup is because
it's not in this patch. But AFAICS the only thing that this enables
is sleeping with user page tables. Do we really need to do that?