Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 5 authors, 2020-06-17

Re: [PATCH 6/8] x86: Provide API for local kernel TLB flushing

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-06-16 16:59:48
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:49 AM Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:
The seccomp constant action bitmap filter evaluation routine depends
on being able to quickly clear the PTE "accessed" bit for a temporary
allocation. Provide access to the existing CPU-local kernel memory TLB
flushing routines.
Can you write a better justification?  Also, unless I'm just
incompetent this morning, I can't find anyone calling this in the
series.
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