Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 07/17/2013 11:57 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > Hi, Peter, > > > > Any reason for why following changelog get dropped? > > > > --- > > v5: > > - add comments to all IDTs about alignment reasoning, suggested by Linus > > v4: > > - rework using __page_aligned_bss,

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: On 07/17/2013 11:57 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: Hi, Peter, Any reason for why following changelog get dropped? --- v5: - add comments to all IDTs about alignment reasoning, suggested by Linus v4: - rework using __page_aligned_bss,

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/17/2013 11:57 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > Hi, Peter, > > Any reason for why following changelog get dropped? > > --- > v5: > - add comments to all IDTs about alignment reasoning, suggested by Linus > v4: > - rework using __page_aligned_bss, suggested by Yinghai LU > - move all the other

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-17 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM, tip-bot for Kees Cook wrote: > Commit-ID: 4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 > Author: Kees Cook > AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:34:41 -0700 > Committer: H. Peter Anvin

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-17 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM, tip-bot for Kees Cook tip...@zytor.com wrote: Commit-ID: 4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 Author: Kees Cook keesc...@chromium.org AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:34:41

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/17/2013 11:57 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: Hi, Peter, Any reason for why following changelog get dropped? --- v5: - add comments to all IDTs about alignment reasoning, suggested by Linus v4: - rework using __page_aligned_bss, suggested by Yinghai LU - move all the other IDT

[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-16 Thread tip-bot for Kees Cook
Commit-ID: 4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 Author: Kees Cook AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:34:41 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:14:48 -0700 x86: Make sure IDT is page

[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-16 Thread tip-bot for Kees Cook
Commit-ID: 4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 Author: Kees Cook keesc...@chromium.org AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:34:41 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin h...@linux.intel.com CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-15 Thread Kees Cook
Hi, On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:09 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 07/13/2013 02:34 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >> can we use put all idt_table related in to __bss.aligned section ...? >> >> like >> gate_desc idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss; >> > > I think this is the best solution all

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/13/2013 02:34 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > can we use put all idt_table related in to __bss.aligned section ...? > > like > gate_desc idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss; > I think this is the best solution all around... it not only solves the initializer problem but also reduces the

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/13/2013 02:34 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: can we use put all idt_table related in to __bss.aligned section ...? like gate_desc idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss; I think this is the best solution all around... it not only solves the initializer problem but also reduces the size of

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-15 Thread Kees Cook
Hi, On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:09 AM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: On 07/13/2013 02:34 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: can we use put all idt_table related in to __bss.aligned section ...? like gate_desc idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss; I think this is the best solution all

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-13 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:21 PM, tip-bot for Kees Cook wrote: > Commit-ID: c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f > Author: Kees Cook > AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:50:17 -0700 > Committer: H. Peter Anvin

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-13 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:21 PM, tip-bot for Kees Cook wrote: > Commit-ID: c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f > Author: Kees Cook > AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:50:17 -0700 > Committer: H. Peter Anvin

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-13 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:21 PM, tip-bot for Kees Cook tip...@zytor.com wrote: Commit-ID: c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f Author: Kees Cook keesc...@chromium.org AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:50:17

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-13 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:21 PM, tip-bot for Kees Cook tip...@zytor.com wrote: Commit-ID: c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f Author: Kees Cook keesc...@chromium.org AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:50:17

[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-12 Thread tip-bot for Kees Cook
Commit-ID: c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f Author: Kees Cook AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:50:17 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin CommitDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:14:08 -0700 x86: Make sure IDT is page

[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-12 Thread tip-bot for Kees Cook
Commit-ID: c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c0b3450f101523a49823fa93d155f1d258e5ac6f Author: Kees Cook keesc...@chromium.org AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:50:17 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin h...@linux.intel.com CommitDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013