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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:50:14 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,  Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,  Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>,  Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,  Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,  Julien Tinnes <jln@...gle.com>,  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,  Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,  Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>,  x86@...nel.org,  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,  Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,  Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,  "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,  kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,  "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,  virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,  xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86: use a read-only IDT alias on all CPUs

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> writes:
>
> This looks very nice to me now. Peter, any objections?

it seems pointless without randomized main kernel text location, because
the IDT will be still at a known per kernel fixed writable location in
the direct mapping.

As long as such randomization is not there it just wastes a TLB entry.

-Andi

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

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