From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945933AbbEOAxG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 20:53:06 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55526 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945918AbbEOAxB (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 20:53:01 -0400 Message-ID: <5555434A.40503@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 17:52:26 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Triplett , Arjan van de Ven CC: Ingo Molnar , Alex Henrie , One Thousand Gnomes , Kees Cook , Doug Johnson , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Preserve iopl on fork and execve References: <1431387505-13410-1-git-send-email-alexhenrie24@gmail.com> <20150512064032.GA25097@gmail.com> <20150514104127.GA31892@x> In-Reply-To: <20150514104127.GA31892@x> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/14/2015 03:41 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I have a patch series that does exactly that, compiling out the syscalls > as well as the underlying architecture-specific infrastructure. (Saves > quite a bit of space, too.) > > It still needs some more detailed x86 architecture review. Peter, Ingo? > Would you be interested in taking (an updated version of) that patch > series for the next merge window? > I think that makes sense. -hpa