Re: [smartos-discuss] KPTI testing help wanted (PCID edition)

2018-02-28 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:26:04pm +0200, Jussi Sallinen wrote: > On 23/02/2018 9.08, Jussi Sallinen wrote: > > >I’ll be able to run tests on X5500 system (Fire X4170) during the weekend, > >if I’m not mistaking it’s Nehalem based. > > The KPTI debug build seems to run fine on X5500 based

Re: [smartos-discuss] KPTI testing help wanted (PCID edition)

2018-03-01 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 07:13:39AM +0100, Michal Nowak wrote: >When on Linux KVM I was able to run many tests from Phoronix Test Suite >(from pkgsrc) - they all passed, could not break it (sorry :) ). I'll >do the same on bare metal this week. Thanks for the testing Michal! regards

Re: [smartos-discuss] KPTI testing help wanted (PCID edition)

2018-03-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:21:45am +0100, Michal Nowak wrote: > >>https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/arekinath/public/kpti/20180221T003551Z/platform-20180221T003551Z.tgz > >>https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/arekinath/public/kpti/20180221T003551Z/platform-20180221T003551Z.iso >

Re: [smartos-discuss] KPTI testing help wanted (PCID edition)

2018-03-07 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:58:16PM +0100, Michal Nowak wrote: > Just filed: https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/issues/768 > > I think I should test if it also fails on EHCI and with latest non-KPTI > SmartOS image. That would be very useful. Also, can you try adding to the end of the grub

Re: [smartos-discuss] Platform flag day: KVM update

2018-07-30 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 09:58:49AM +, Daniel Plominski wrote: > https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-7090 unfortunately, it is not > publicly available I made the issue public. regards john --- smartos-discuss Archives:

[smartos-discuss] Platform flag day: KVM update

2018-07-30 Thread John Levon
Hi all, If you don't build the platform, then you can skip this message. The fix for: OS-7090 GDT limit reset to 0x includes changes in illumos as well as projects/local/kvm/ If you update KVM, you must also update the illumos tree to the latest, so the KVM driver can resolve

Re: [smartos-discuss] Subject: L1 Terminal Fault (CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646)

2018-08-16 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:20:13AM +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Just a quick question - is it recommended to disable Hyper Threading in the > BIOS, or will simply updating the platform image be sufficient to address > this? See here:

[smartos-discuss] Platform flag day: KVM update

2018-08-14 Thread John Levon
Hi all, If you don't build the platform, then you can skip this message. The fix for: OS-7125 Need mitigation of L1TF (CVE-2018-3646) includes changes in illumos as well as projects/local/kvm/ If you update KVM, you must also update the illumos tree to the latest. thanks john