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Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:34:11PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This is take 2 at fixing x86 64-bit signals wrt SS.  After a lot of
> thought, this is not controlled by any flags -- I would much prefer
> to avoid opt-in behavior.  Instead, it just tries hard to avoid
> triggering the cases that break DOSEMU.
> 
> Stas, this now seems to pass the test you sent me.  It works with
> stock dosemu2 (I haven't tested classic dosemu because I can't get it
> to work regardless).  It also works with a patched dosemu2 that bypasses
> the userspace trampoline:
> 
> https://github.com/amluto/dosemu2/commit/571b4d08dc885b7a133e444a2ad23e0d21366206
> 
> With this applied, all of the x86 selftests pass on x86_64.  That
> wasn't the case before -- ldt_gdt_64 was broken.

I've been testing this series already. I guess ;) Anyway, gonna try
it one more shot at the evening, just to make sure. From a glance
everything looks just great!

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[PATCH v3 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-01-25 22:40 +0100
  [PATCH v3 4/4] selftests/x86: Add tests for UC_SIGCONTEXT_SS and UC_STRICT_RESTORE_SS Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-01-25 22:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 09:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 21:00 +0100

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