From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH] SPTE masking
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:32:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.999.1808101030330.29469@i7.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180810172341.GH4238@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, speck for Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Normally we have the maxphyaddr reported by CPUID, and then we
> have a larger maxphyaddr which could exist because VMs are lying
> (upto 46bits)
.. or because the CPU itself is lying. Didn't we have some CPU versions
that reported a different maxphyaddr than the CPU internally actually had?
I'm pretty sure I saw a patch that listed specific CPU versions with the
"correction" to the reported size..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-10 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-08 23:21 [MODERATED] [PATCH] SPTE masking Jim Mattson
2018-08-09 2:57 ` [MODERATED] " Andi Kleen
2018-08-09 9:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-09 17:43 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-10 7:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-10 15:59 ` Jim Mattson
2018-08-10 17:23 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-10 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-08-10 17:45 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-10 18:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-10 19:17 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-12 10:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-09 9:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-09 9:33 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-09 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-09 10:47 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-09 11:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-09 11:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-09 11:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-09 14:01 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-09 15:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-09 20:14 ` Jim Mattson
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