On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 12:54:50AM -0500, Russell via talk wrote:
> For a problem like this one and given it's scope and complexity, it is 
> premature to downplay the core and it's overhead issue. This is not like in 
> the movies where the producer says, it's not a problem, we can fix it in 
> POST. This is a preproduction issue with the actors.
> 
> If you want to get all biological about pathology. The pathology of this 
> problem is far from well understood. Finding the proper namespace is 
> important. 
> 
> At Linus's request KAISER has been dropped. However fuckwit (Forcefully Unmap 
> Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines, ) has not been adopted, by most 
> people anyway.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/709

Well code I see committed in the kernel uses pti_ for the functions,
so seems they settled on page table isolation.  It was previously
suggesting kpti for kernel page table isolation but I guess the kernel
bit was deemed redundant.

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Len Sorensen
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