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Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak

From "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak
Date 2016-06-14 23:20 +0200
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On June 14, 2016 2:02:55 PM PDT, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 01:54:25PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> There was that.  It is still possible that we end up with NOP a JMP
>> right before another JMP; we could perhaps make the patching code
>> smarter and see if we have a JMP immediately after.
>
>Yeah, I still can't get reproduce that reliably - I remember seeing it
>at some point but then dismissing it for another, higher-prio thing.
>And
>now the whole memory is hazy at best.
>
>But, you're giving me a great idea right now - I have this kernel
>disassembler tool which dumps alternative sections already and I could
>teach it to look for pathological cases around the patching sites and
>scream.
>
>Something for my TODO list when I get a quiet moment.
>
>Thanks!

We talked with the GCC people about always bias asm goto toward the first label even if followed by __builtin_unreachable().  I don't know if that happened; if so we should probably insert the unreachable for those versions of gcc only.
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[PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Lukasz Anaczkowski <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 18:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 18:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 18:50 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "Anaczkowski, Lukasz" <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:00 +0200
    [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Lukasz Anaczkowski <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-06-14 20:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 21:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-06-14 21:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-14 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-06-14 22:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-14 23:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-14 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-06-14 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-14 23:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-06-14 20:20 +0200
        RE: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "Anaczkowski, Lukasz" <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-15 15:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 20:40 +0200
        RE: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "Anaczkowski, Lukasz" <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-15 15:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 22:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-15 22:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 22:30 +0200
      [PATCH v3] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Lukasz Anaczkowski <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-16 17:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 18:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-16 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 22:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 23:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-15 04:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 04:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-15 04:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 04:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-15 05:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 05:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-14 19:30 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] Linux VM workaround for Knights Landing A/D leak "Anaczkowski, Lukasz" <lukasz.anaczkowski@intel.com> - 2016-06-15 15:10 +0200

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