Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] x86, alternatives: Instruction padding and more robust JMPs

2015-03-02 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:51:17PM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote: > I'm not sure I'm a suitable person for reviewing your patch, but I > tested this patchset for perf bench with your latest (v2) patchset for > x86 alternatives. It looks good to me. > Reviewed-by: Hitoshi Mitake Thanks a lot, I'll a

Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] x86, alternatives: Instruction padding and more robust JMPs

2015-03-02 Thread Hitoshi Mitake
Hi Borislav, At Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:13:38 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Hi all, > > So this alternatives patchset breaks perf bench mem, here are a couple > of patches ontop, you guys tell me whether it makes sense. I wanted to > make it run all memset/memcpy routines so here are a couple o

Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] x86, alternatives: Instruction padding and more robust JMPs

2015-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
Hi all, So this alternatives patchset breaks perf bench mem, here are a couple of patches ontop, you guys tell me whether it makes sense. I wanted to make it run all memset/memcpy routines so here are a couple of patches which do this: ./perf bench mem memset -l 20MB -r all # Running 'mem/memset'

Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] x86, alternatives: Instruction padding and more robust JMPs

2015-02-24 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: Borislav Petkov > > [ Changelog is in version-increasing number so that one can follow the > evolution of the patch set in a more natural way (i.e., latest version > comes at the end. ] > > v0: > > this is something which h

[PATCH v2 00/15] x86, alternatives: Instruction padding and more robust JMPs

2015-02-24 Thread Borislav Petkov
From: Borislav Petkov [ Changelog is in version-increasing number so that one can follow the evolution of the patch set in a more natural way (i.e., latest version comes at the end. ] v0: this is something which hpa and I talked about recently: the ability for the alternatives code to