linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86
Andy Lutomirski c4a7bba29b sched/x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching
The code is correct, but only for a rather subtle reason.  This
confused me for quite a while when I read switch_mm, so clarify
the code to avoid confusing other people, too.

TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if this code was only correct by
accident.

[ I wouldn't normally send a comment-only patch, but it took me a long
  time to first figure out wtf was going on here, and then to figure
  out why this wasn't exploitable by malicious code, and then to
  figure out why this oddity had no user-visible effect at all.  Let's
  spare future readers the same confusion. ]

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/36275c99801a87d8dcf0502a41cf4e2ad81aae46.1412623954.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-10-28 11:11:57 +01:00
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boot Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-23 14:45:09 -07:00
configs x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel 2014-08-08 16:30:24 -07:00
crypto Revert "crypto: aesni - disable "by8" AVX CTR optimization" 2014-10-02 14:40:28 +08:00
ia32 Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
include sched/x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching 2014-10-28 11:11:57 +01:00
kernel Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
kvm KVM: x86: Wrong assertion on paging_tmpl.h 2014-10-24 13:30:37 +02:00
lguest
lib Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 18:14:50 +02:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
net x86: bpf_jit: fix two bugs in eBPF JIT compiler 2014-10-14 13:13:14 -04:00
oprofile percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t 2014-08-28 08:58:57 -04:00
pci xen: features and fixes for 3.18-rc0 2014-10-11 20:29:01 -04:00
platform The "weak" attribute is commonly used for the default version of a 2014-10-23 15:04:27 -07:00
power nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in <asm/sections.h> 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
purgatory arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile: try to use automatic variable in kexec purgatory makefile 2014-10-14 02:18:21 +02:00
realmode
syscalls bpf: enable bpf syscall on x64 and i386 2014-09-26 15:05:14 -04:00
tools x86/relocs: Make per_cpu_load_addr static 2014-09-24 15:17:47 +02:00
um Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
vdso x86/vdso: Fix vdso2c's special_pages[] error checking 2014-09-24 09:55:38 +02:00
video
xen x86/xen: panic on bad Xen-provided memory map 2014-10-23 16:24:02 +01:00
.gitignore x86/build: Add arch/x86/purgatory/ make generated files to gitignore 2014-10-09 09:29:46 +02:00
Kbuild kexec: create a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE for new syscall 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-14 02:23:55 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 18:17:33 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um