From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at,
daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at, michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at,
richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at, luto@kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, keescook@google.com,
hughd@google.com, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 30/30] x86, kaiser, xen: Dynamically disable KAISER when running under Xen PV
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:01:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e70274c-6ad0-9f9c-0ad3-8d3306d8174a@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171108194742.8CD79E09@viggo.jf.intel.com>
On 08/11/17 20:47, Dave Hansen wrote:
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>
> If you paravirtualize the MMU, you can not use KAISER. This boils down
> to the fact that KAISER needs to do CR3 writes in places that it is not
> feasible to do real hypercalls.
>
> If we detect that Xen PV is in use, do not do the KAISER CR3 switches.
>
> I don't think this too bug of a deal for Xen. I was under the
> impression that the Xen guest kernel and Xen guest userspace didn't
> share an address space *anyway* so Xen PV is not normally even exposed
> to the kinds of things that KAISER protects against.
>
> This allows KAISER=y kernels to deployed in environments that also
> require PARAVIRT=y.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Juergen
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 19:46 [PATCH 00/30] [v2] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from userspace page tables Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:46 ` [PATCH 01/30] x86, mm: do not set _PAGE_USER for init_mm " Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-08 20:11 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-09 10:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-08 19:46 ` [PATCH 02/30] x86, tlb: make CR4-based TLB flushes more robust Dave Hansen
2017-11-09 10:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-09 10:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-09 11:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-08 19:46 ` [PATCH 03/30] x86, mm: document X86_CR4_PGE toggling behavior Dave Hansen
2017-11-09 12:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-08 19:46 ` [PATCH 04/30] x86, kaiser: disable global pages by default with KAISER Dave Hansen
2017-11-09 12:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-09 22:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-08 19:46 ` [PATCH 05/30] x86, kaiser: prepare assembly for entry/exit CR3 switching Dave Hansen
2017-11-09 13:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-09 15:34 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-09 15:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-08 19:46 ` [PATCH 06/30] x86, kaiser: introduce user-mapped percpu areas Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:46 ` [PATCH 07/30] x86, kaiser: mark percpu data structures required for entry/exit Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 08/30] x86, kaiser: unmap kernel from userspace page tables (core patch) Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 09/30] x86, kaiser: only populate shadow page tables for userspace Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 10/30] x86, kaiser: allow NX to be set in p4d/pgd Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 11/30] x86, kaiser: make sure static PGDs are 8k in size Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 12/30] x86, kaiser: map GDT into user page tables Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 13/30] x86, kaiser: map dynamically-allocated LDTs Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 14/30] x86, kaiser: map espfix structures Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 15/30] x86, kaiser: map entry stack variables Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 16/30] x86, kaiser: map trace interrupt entry Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 17/30] x86, kaiser: map debug IDT tables Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 18/30] x86, kaiser: map virtually-addressed performance monitoring buffers Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 12:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 19/30] x86, mm: Move CR3 construction functions Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 20/30] x86, mm: remove hard-coded ASID limit checks Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 12:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-10 18:41 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 21/30] x86, mm: put mmu-to-h/w ASID translation in one place Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 22/30] x86, pcid, kaiser: allow flushing for future ASID switches Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 12:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 23/30] x86, kaiser: use PCID feature to make user and kernel switches faster Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 24/30] x86, kaiser: disable native VSYSCALL Dave Hansen
2017-11-09 19:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-09 19:26 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 0:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-10 0:57 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 1:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-10 1:22 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 2:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-10 6:31 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 22:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-10 23:04 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-13 3:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-13 21:07 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-14 2:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 25/30] x86, kaiser: add debugfs file to turn KAISER on/off at runtime Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 26/30] x86, kaiser: add a function to check for KAISER being enabled Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 27/30] x86, kaiser: un-poison PGDs at runtime Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 28/30] x86, kaiser: allow KAISER to be enabled/disabled " Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 29/30] x86, kaiser: add Kconfig Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 30/30] x86, kaiser, xen: Dynamically disable KAISER when running under Xen PV Dave Hansen
2017-11-09 15:01 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2017-11-10 19:30 [PATCH 00/30] [v3] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from userspace page tables Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:32 ` [PATCH 30/30] x86, kaiser, xen: Dynamically disable KAISER when running under Xen PV Dave Hansen
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