Re: page table isolation alternative mechanism

2018-01-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 14:22:37 -0500 Albert Cahalan wrote: > We got into the current situation for performance reasons, avoiding the costly > reload of CR3 that a hardware task switch would cause. It seems we'll be > loading CR3 now anyway, so it might be time to reconsider hardware > task switches.

page table isolation alternative mechanism

2018-01-03 Thread Albert Cahalan
We got into the current situation for performance reasons, avoiding the costly reload of CR3 that a hardware task switch would cause. It seems we'll be loading CR3 now anyway, so it might be time to reconsider hardware task switches. The recent patches leave kernel entry/exit code mapped. Hardware