Re: [PATCH] x86-64, vsyscalls: Rename UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS toCOMPAT_VSYSCALLS

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 06:13:41 EST



* pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > You generally seem to assume that security is an absolute goal
> > with no costs attached.
>
> quote me on that back please or admit you made this up. [...]

Just one quick example of your delusion:

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| "a page fault is never a fast path"
|

(PageExec, Jun 6, 2011)

http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/6/209

I think that sentence will become a classic quote to chuckle about.

Thanks,

Ingo
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