On 08/21/2018 11:37 AM, Juergen Gross wrote: > While the hypervisor emulates plain writes to PTEs happily, this is > much slower than issuing a hypercall for PTE modifcations. And writing > a PTE via two 32-bit write instructions (especially when clearing the > PTE) will result in an intermediate L1TF vulnerable PTE. > > Writes to PAE PTEs should always be done with 64-bit writes or via > hypercalls. > > Juergen Gross (2): > x86/xen: don't write ptes directly in 32-bit PV guests > x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in native_ptep_get_and_clear > > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 7 +++---- > arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 7 +++---- > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >
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