From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v9 03/13] mm: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 09:18:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a47cf86-a05d-3de5-0320-eda06101cc75@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35c4635e-8214-7dde-b4ec-4cb266b2ea10@redhat.com>
On 5/1/19 8:49 AM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:34:04AM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>
>> index 858b6c0b9a15..9b36da94760e 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> @@ -2997,6 +2997,12 @@
>>
>> nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
>>
>> + noxpfo [XPFO] Disable eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO)
>> + when CONFIG_XPFO is on. Physical pages mapped into
>> + user applications will also be mapped in the
>> + kernel's address space as if CONFIG_XPFO was not
>> + enabled.
>> +
>> cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
>> CONFIG_BO OTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
>> Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
>
> Given the big performance impact that XPFO can have. It should be off by
> default when configured. Instead, the xpfo option should be used to
> enable it.
Agreed. I plan to disable it by default in the next version of the
patch. This is likely to end up being a feature for extreme security
conscious folks only, unless I or someone else comes up with further
significant performance boost.
Thanks,
Khalid
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-01 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-03 17:34 [RFC PATCH v9 00/13] Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 01/13] mm: add MAP_HUGETLB support to vm_mmap Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 02/13] x86: always set IF before oopsing from page fault Khalid Aziz
2019-04-04 0:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-04 1:42 ` Tycho Andersen
2019-04-04 4:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-04 15:47 ` Tycho Andersen
2019-04-04 16:23 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-04-04 16:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-04 17:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 03/13] mm: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO) Khalid Aziz
2019-04-04 7:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-04 9:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-04 14:48 ` Tycho Andersen
2019-04-04 7:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-04 15:15 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-04 17:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-17 16:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-17 16:49 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-17 17:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-17 17:19 ` Nadav Amit
2019-04-17 17:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-17 17:44 ` Nadav Amit
2019-04-17 21:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-17 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-17 23:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-17 23:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-18 4:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-18 5:41 ` Kees Cook
2019-04-18 14:34 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-22 19:30 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-22 22:23 ` Kees Cook
2019-04-18 6:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-17 17:33 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-17 19:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-17 19:52 ` Tycho Andersen
2019-04-17 20:12 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-05-01 14:49 ` Waiman Long
2019-05-01 15:18 ` Khalid Aziz [this message]
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 04/13] xpfo, x86: Add support for XPFO for x86-64 Khalid Aziz
2019-04-04 7:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-04 15:40 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 05/13] mm: add a user_virt_to_phys symbol Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 06/13] lkdtm: Add test for XPFO Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 07/13] arm64/mm: Add support " Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 08/13] swiotlb: Map the buffer if it was unmapped by XPFO Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 09/13] xpfo: add primitives for mapping underlying memory Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 10/13] arm64/mm, xpfo: temporarily map dcache regions Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 11/13] xpfo, mm: optimize spinlock usage in xpfo_kunmap Khalid Aziz
2019-04-04 7:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-04 16:06 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 12/13] xpfo, mm: Defer TLB flushes for non-current CPUs (x86 only) Khalid Aziz
2019-04-04 4:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
[not found] ` <91f1dbce-332e-25d1-15f6-0e9cfc8b797b@oracle.com>
2019-04-05 7:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-05 14:44 ` Dave Hansen
2019-04-05 15:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-05 15:56 ` Tycho Andersen
2019-04-05 16:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-05 15:56 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-05 16:01 ` Dave Hansen
2019-04-05 16:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-05 16:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-05 17:35 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-05 15:44 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-05 15:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-04 8:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-03 17:34 ` [RFC PATCH v9 13/13] xpfo, mm: Optimize XPFO TLB flushes by batching them together Khalid Aziz
2019-04-04 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH v9 00/13] Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership Nadav Amit
2019-04-04 17:18 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-04-06 6:40 ` Jon Masters
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