Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965815AbeAKUAL (ORCPT + 1 other); Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:00:11 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:3558 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932431AbeAKUAJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:00:09 -0500 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,346,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="10061477" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] x86/entry/pti: don't switch PGD on when pti_disable is set To: Andy Lutomirski References: <1515502580-12261-1-git-send-email-w@1wt.eu> <1515502580-12261-7-git-send-email-w@1wt.eu> <20180110082207.GX29822@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20180110091102.GH14066@1wt.eu> <20180111064259.GC14920@1wt.eu> <0f08d89e-61e1-20e3-5c59-0b2f7b32bf0c@linux.intel.com> <20180111154412.GA15296@1wt.eu> Cc: Willy Tarreau , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , LKML , X86 ML , Borislav Petkov , Brian Gerst , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Josh Poimboeuf , "H. Peter Anvin" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kees Cook From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <4cd54266-84b4-d2b8-fed8-12e3007a3b77@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:00:08 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: On 01/11/2018 09:02 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> But, the stack gets really fun because of NMIs. >> >> I'm sure Andy Lutomirski has some ideas too. > I was thinking that maybe we should add a new field or two to pt_regs. > They could store CR2 and maybe CR3 as well. I'd also like to expose > the error code of exceptions in stack traces. We should get this > integrated right into the unwinder. The trampoline and (normal) interrupt stacks should be pretty doable. It's the NMI mess that I'm worried about. I tried to change the stack layout in there once and ran away screaming.