Re: [PATCH v5] x86: make sure IDT is page aligned

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 18:14:04 EST


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/16/2013 01:47 PM, Kees Cook wrote:

>> The other IDTs don't need to be page aligned, but I marked them that
>> way in the clean up because it seemed sensible to define these tables
>> similarly. I can change the others to be __cacheline_aligned_bss if
>> that's desired.
>>
>
> I'm fine keeping them as page aligned. They are page-sized on x86-64
> anyway (half page on i386).

ok, then should change

> +/* No need to be aligned, but done to keep all IDTs defined the same way. */
> +gate_desc trace_idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss;

==>

> +/* Only need to be cacheline aligned, but keep all IDTs defined the same way to be page aligned. */
> +gate_desc trace_idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss;
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