From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 15/16] x86/iopl: Remove legacy IOPL option
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:40:52 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1911122040020.1833@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWsr=KXyg_dc+97StqFHPRkvW_db_b4QvnH+ib9YJ761w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> >
> > The IOPL emulation via the I/O bitmap is sufficient. Remove the legacy
> > cruft dealing with the (e)flags based IOPL mechanism.
>
> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
>
> But I think you could simplify a little bit and have a single config
> option that controls the iopl() and iopl() syscalls.
You mean turning off both iopl() and ioperm() in one go. Yes, that'd be
possible. Let me look.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-11 22:03 [patch V2 00/16] x86/iopl: Prevent user space from using CLI/STI with iopl(3) Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 01/16] x86/ptrace: Prevent truncation of bitmap size Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 15:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 02/16] x86/process: Unify copy_thread_tls() Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 03/16] x86/cpu: Unify cpu_init() Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 04/16] x86/tss: Fix and move VMX BUILD_BUG_ON() Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 22:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-12 15:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 05/16] x86/iopl: Cleanup include maze Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 15:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 06/16] x86/io: Speedup schedule out of I/O bitmap user Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 16:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-12 17:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 07/16] x86/ioperm: Move iobitmap data into a struct Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 16:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-12 17:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 08/16] x86/ioperm: Add bitmap sequence number Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-11-12 9:55 ` [patch V2 08/16] x86/ioperm: Add bitmap sequence numberc Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 16:08 ` [patch V2 08/16] x86/ioperm: Add bitmap sequence number Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-12 17:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 09/16] x86/ioperm: Move TSS bitmap update to exit to user work Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 16:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-12 17:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 17:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-12 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-13 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 10/16] x86/ioperm: Remove bitmap if all permissions dropped Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 17:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 11/16] x86/ioperm: Share I/O bitmap if identical Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 7:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-12 7:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 7:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-12 9:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-11-12 9:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-14 11:02 ` David Laight
2019-11-14 12:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-14 13:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-11-14 13:22 ` David Laight
2019-11-12 18:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 12/16] selftests/x86/ioperm: Extend testing so the shared bitmap is exercised Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 13/16] x86/iopl: Fixup misleading comment Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 18:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 14/16] x86/iopl: Restrict iopl() permission scope Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 23:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 6:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-12 8:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-12 10:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 18:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 15/16] x86/iopl: Remove legacy IOPL option Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 18:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-12 19:40 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-11-11 22:03 ` [patch V2 16/16] selftests/x86/iopl: Extend test to cover IOPL emulation Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-12 7:40 ` [PATCH] x86/iopl: Factor out IO-bitmap related TSS fields into 'struct x86_io_bitmap' Ingo Molnar
2019-11-12 7:59 ` [PATCH] x86/iopl: Harmonize 'struct io_bitmap' and 'struct x86_io_bitmap' nomenclature Ingo Molnar
2019-11-12 8:11 ` [PATCH] x86/iopl: Clear up the role of the two bitmap copying fields Ingo Molnar
2019-11-12 8:15 ` [PATCH] x86/iopl: Rename <asm/iobitmap.h> to <asm/io_bitmap.h> Ingo Molnar
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