rr (http://rr-project.org/), a userspace record-and-replay reverse- execution debugger, would like to trap and emulate the CPUID instruction. This would allow us to a) mask away certain hardware features that rr does not support (e.g. RDRAND) and b) enable trace portability across machines by providing constant results. Newer Intel CPUs (Ivy Bridge and later) can fault when CPUID is executed at CPL > 0. Expose this capability to userspace as a new pair of arch_prctls, ARCH_GET_CPUID and ARCH_SET_CPUID, with two values, ARCH_CPUID_ENABLE and ARCH_CPUID_SIGSEGV. v6 did not get any feedback, so I included the changes since v5. Since v6: - Rebased to 4.9-rc1 (primarily over the new VDSO arch_prctls and the new pkey entries in the syscall table) Since v5: Patch 3: - do_arch_prctl is again do_arch_prctl_common Patch 6: - Added static qualifiers on get/set_cpuid_mode - Braced ifs in disable/enable_cpuid - Renamed arch_post_exec to arch_setup_new_exec -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
