Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:28:34 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] x86/arch_prctl: add ARCH_GET_NOPTI and
 ARCH_SET_NOPTI to enable/disable PTI
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 05:19:29PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Well, indeed. It will never be 100% equivalent to pti=off however since
> the alternative code will remain in place, but why not. Or maybe we have
> a way to change the alternatives at run time by changing a sysctl,

Not yet. We need to think about it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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