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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:19:02 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>, Marius Hillenbrand
<mhillenb@...zon.de>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
linux-mm@...ck.org, Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.de>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, Andy Lutomirski
<luto@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] Process-local memory allocations for hiding KVM
secrets
On 6/13/19 12:27 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Where's the context-switching code? Did I just miss it?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question. With this mechanism, the global
> linear map pages are just not present anymore, so there is no context
> switching needed. For the process local memory, the page table is
> already mm local, so we don't need to do anything special during context
> switch, no?
Thanks for explaining, I was just confused.
Andy reminded me when comparing it to the LDT area: since this area is
per-mm/pgd and we context switch that *obviously* there's no extra work
to do at context switch time, as long as the area is marked non-Global.
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