On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> * Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> wrote:

>> P.S. Let's do the move to the fixmap, read/write as a separate patch. That 
>> will
>> make bisecting much easier.
>
> Absolutely, but this has to be within the same series, as the interim 
> fixmap-only
> step is less secure in some circumstances: we are moving the writable GDT 
> from a
> previously randomized location to a fixed location.

True, but despite being randomized its location was never even
remotely secret.  (Except on Kaby Lake or Foobar Lake or whatever CPU
that is.)

--Andy

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