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Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5AE9764D02000078001C00BE@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=8880 signatures=668698 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=751 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1711220000 definitions=main-1805020124 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/02/2018 04:26 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 01.05.18 at 14:34, wrote: >> On 05/01/2018 04:00 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:23:39PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >>>> And without it we can't use _BOOT_XX macros any longer so define new ones. >>> Not being that familiar with Linux internals I'm not sure I see the >>> benefit of this. Isn't there a risk that some other code is going to >>> use the __BOOT_XX defines? >> The startup code we are jumping to loads their own GDT and I don't see >> any explicit references to segments. > No explicit references to segments isn't enough: You also need to make > sure no exceptions at all can occur while loaded selectors and GDT are > out of sync - in particular NMI might be of concern here (this isn't PV > after all, where not having a callback registered effectively masks NMI). How would keeping __BOOT_XX selectors help with NMI? We don't have anything set up for NMI handling anyway yet, this is all done in x86 startup code later. -boris