Re: [GIT pull] x86/urgent for v5.9-rc2

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Aug 23 2020 - 18:35:24 EST


On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 3:27 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Every interrupt is going to load the CS and SS descriptor cache lines.

Yeah, but this isn't even sharing the same GDT cache line. Those two
are at least in the same cacheline, and hey, that is forced upon us by
the architecture, so we don't have any choice.

But I guess this lsl thing only triggers on the paranoid entry, so
it's just NMI, DB and MCE.. Or?

Linus