Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] CR4 handling improvements

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Oct 31 2014 - 13:10:06 EST


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> This looks ok I suppose, although the x86 people should pass verdict on
> the first few patches.

Adding some KVM people, too. Patches 2 and 3 affect KVM, and that
code has been buggy in the recent past. They should mostly fix the
performance regression that the fix for CVE-2014-3690 caused.

For reference, the series is here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1813271/focus=1818661

Patch 1 has already been applied.

--Andy

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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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