From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
PaX Team <pageexec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] x86: make sure IDT is page aligned
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:43:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E5DAA5.3010806@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQVMQyhy57MhrkCH7TYqhwgb5tHFjSxhCh8KcN+DNuXE4Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/16/2013 04:39 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> ok. so the old code is just for optimization to keep it cacheline aligned?
>
To the best of my knowledge. I guess I should look through the git log
to make sure it isn't some old erratum fix.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 18:34 [PATCH v5] x86: make sure IDT is page aligned Kees Cook
2013-07-16 18:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 20:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-07-16 20:28 ` Kees Cook
2013-07-16 20:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 20:47 ` Kees Cook
2013-07-16 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 22:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-07-16 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 23:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-07-16 23:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-07-16 23:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-07-16 22:33 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make " tip-bot for Kees Cook
2013-07-17 18:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-07-17 19:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-18 7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
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