From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [patch V2 03/10] MDS basics+ 3
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:57:04 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1902201756370.1513@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190220165453.GA127@mgross-MOBL.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, speck for mark gross wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 04:07:56PM +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > +static inline void mds_clear_cpu_buffers(void)
> > +{
> > + static const u16 ds = __KERNEL_DS;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Has to be memory form, don't modify to use a register. VERW
> > + * modifies ZF.
> > + */
> > + asm volatile("verw %[ds]" : : "i" (0), [ds] "m" (ds) : "cc");
> > +}
> > +
> > #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
> >
> > /*
> >
> Perhaps a dumb question but, is there any point to including that fall back ASM
> altrinitive for platfroms without the uCode update enabling verw to clear
> buffers?
See 8/10 ....
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-20 15:07 [patch V2 00/10] MDS basics+ 0 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 15:07 ` [patch V2 01/10] MDS basics+ 1 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 16:27 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-20 16:46 ` Greg KH
2019-02-20 15:07 ` [patch V2 02/10] MDS basics+ 2 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 16:47 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-20 16:48 ` Greg KH
2019-02-20 15:07 ` [patch V2 03/10] MDS basics+ 3 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 16:54 ` [MODERATED] " mark gross
2019-02-20 16:57 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-02-20 18:08 ` mark gross
2019-02-20 21:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 17:14 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-20 21:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 2:12 ` [MODERATED] " Andrew Cooper
2019-02-21 9:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-21 9:33 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-21 10:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 10:18 ` [MODERATED] Re: " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-20 15:07 ` [patch V2 04/10] MDS basics+ 4 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 16:52 ` [MODERATED] " Greg KH
2019-02-20 17:10 ` mark gross
2019-02-21 19:26 ` [MODERATED] Encrypted Message Tim Chen
2019-02-21 20:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 21:07 ` [MODERATED] " Jiri Kosina
2019-02-20 18:43 ` [MODERATED] Re: [patch V2 04/10] MDS basics+ 4 Borislav Petkov
2019-02-20 19:26 ` Jiri Kosina
2019-02-20 21:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 15:07 ` [patch V2 05/10] MDS basics+ 5 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 20:05 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-21 2:24 ` Andrew Cooper
2019-02-21 10:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 11:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 11:51 ` [MODERATED] Attack Surface [Was [patch V2 05/10] MDS basics+ 5] Andrew Cooper
2019-02-21 18:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 15:07 ` [patch V2 06/10] MDS basics+ 6 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 10:18 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-20 15:08 ` [patch V2 07/10] MDS basics+ 7 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 12:47 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-21 13:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 15:08 ` [patch V2 08/10] MDS basics+ 8 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 14:04 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-02-21 14:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 15:08 ` [patch V2 09/10] MDS basics+ 9 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 16:21 ` [MODERATED] " Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-20 22:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 22:50 ` [MODERATED] " Jiri Kosina
2019-02-20 23:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 11:04 ` [MODERATED] " Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-21 11:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-21 14:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-21 18:00 ` Kees Cook
2019-02-21 19:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 20:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-20 15:08 ` [patch V2 10/10] MDS basics+ 10 Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-22 16:05 ` [MODERATED] Re: [patch V2 00/10] MDS basics+ 0 mark gross
2019-02-22 17:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
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