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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Marius Hillenbrand <mhillenb@amazon.de>,
	kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.de>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] Process-local memory allocations for hiding KVM secrets
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:54:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrXph3Zg907kWTn6gAsZVsPbCB3A2XuNf0hy5Ez2jm2aNQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63b1b249-6bc7-ffd9-99db-d36dd3f1a962@intel.com>

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:50 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/17/19 12:38 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> Yes I know, but as a benefit we could get rid of all the GSBASE
> >> horrors in
> >> the entry code as we could just put the percpu space into the local PGD.
> >
> > Would that mean that with Meltdown affected CPUs we open speculation
> > attacks against the mmlocal memory from KVM user space?
>
> Not necessarily.  There would likely be a _set_ of local PGDs.  We could
> still have pair of PTI PGDs just like we do know, they'd just be a local
> PGD pair.
>

Unfortunately, this would mean that we need to sync twice as many
top-level entries when we context switch.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-17 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-12 17:08 [RFC 00/10] Process-local memory allocations for hiding KVM secrets Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 01/10] x86/mm/kaslr: refactor to use enum indices for regions Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 02/10] x86/speculation, mm: add process local virtual memory region Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 03/10] x86/mm, mm,kernel: add teardown for process-local memory to mm cleanup Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 04/10] mm: allocate virtual space for process-local memory Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 05/10] mm: allocate/release physical pages " Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 06/10] kvm/x86: add support for storing vCPU state in " Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 07/10] kvm, vmx: move CR2 context switch out of assembly path Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 08/10] kvm, vmx: move register clearing " Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 09/10] kvm, vmx: move gprs to process local memory Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 17:08 ` [RFC 10/10] kvm, x86: move guest FPU state into " Marius Hillenbrand
2019-06-12 18:25 ` [RFC 00/10] Process-local memory allocations for hiding KVM secrets Sean Christopherson
2019-06-13  7:20   ` Alexander Graf
2019-06-13 10:54   ` Liran Alon
2019-06-12 19:55 ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-12 20:27   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-12 20:41     ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-12 20:56       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-13  1:30     ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-13  1:50       ` Nadav Amit
2019-06-13 16:16         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-13  7:52       ` Alexander Graf
2019-06-13 16:13         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-13 16:20           ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-13 17:29             ` Nadav Amit
2019-06-13 17:49               ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-13 20:05                 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-06-14 14:21     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-16 22:18       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-16 22:28         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-17  7:38       ` Alexander Graf
2019-06-17 15:50         ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-17 15:54           ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2019-06-17 16:03             ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-17 16:14               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-17 16:53                 ` Nadav Amit
2019-06-17 18:07                   ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-17 18:45                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2019-06-17 18:49                       ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-17 18:53                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-17 18:50                     ` Nadav Amit
2019-06-17 18:55                       ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-13  7:27   ` Alexander Graf
2019-06-13 14:19     ` Dave Hansen

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