On 14 August 2013 16:34, Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When userspace loads the kernel into memory, the kernel is not flushed > to RAM, and may sit in the L3 cache if the cache is big enough. You > end-up executing garbage... My proposed fix is to let kvmtool do the > flushing, as we have userspace cache management operations for this > exact purpose. Why does this issue only apply to the loaded kernel and not to the zero bytes in the rest of RAM? I know executing zeroes isn't a very useful thing to do but it should be a well defined thing. -- PMM _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/kvmarm
