From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752557AbdLEV5w (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:57:52 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:5904 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752210AbdLEV5q (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:57:46 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,365,1508828400"; d="scan'208";a="181675525" Subject: Re: [patch 00/60] x86/kpti: Kernel Page Table Isolation (was KAISER) To: Andy Lutomirski , Thomas Gleixner References: <20171204140706.296109558@linutronix.de> Cc: LKML , X86 ML , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov , Greg KH , Kees Cook , Hugh Dickins , Brian Gerst , Josh Poimboeuf , Denys Vlasenko , Rik van Riel , Boris Ostrovsky , Juergen Gross , David Laight , Eduardo Valentin , aliguori@amazon.com, Will Deacon , Daniel Gruss From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <858a3396-4b13-ca98-7d0b-b4097b9aaa75@intel.com> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:57:43 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/05/2017 01:49 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Random thought for the future: KPTI will make it possible to avoid > global IPI broadcasts on kernel flushes as we discussed, incorrectly, > two years ago at LPC. This could be nice. I'm slow. How?