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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:56:45 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] x86/mm/KASLR: Remap GDTs at fixed location

On 1/5/2017 8:40 AM, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Well, it happens only when KASLR memory randomization is enabled. Do
> you think it should have a separate config option?

no I would want it a runtime option.... "sgdt from ring 3" is going away
with UMIP (and is already possibly gone in virtual machines, see
https://lwn.net/Articles/694385/) and for those cases it would be a shame
to lose the randomization

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