On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11:43AM +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:04:56AM +0100, André Hentschel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > that comes a bit late, but [1] asked for objections.
> > As you can see in [2] there are more and more applications coming to WinRT, Wine could support them,
> > but mostly they expect to have the thread environment block (TEB) in TPIDRURW.
> > This register must be preserved per thread and we have patches for that.
> >
> > Currently there exist two kernel behaviours:
> >
> > 1. the kernel does not touch TPIDRURW at all ("covert channel")
> > 2. the kernel clears TPIDRURW on thread switch
> >
> > Attached to [3] you'll find kernel patches you can freely use.
> > Permission and more info you'll find in [4].
> > Any hints or suggestions?
> >
> > [1] http://www.kernelhub.org/?p=2&msg=57979
> > [2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2092348
> > [3] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31322
> > [4] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31308
>
> Please submit the patches to fix this in the way described in
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Once they are in Linus's tree, I'll be
> glad to take them in the stable tree if they meet the guidelines that
> are described in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
Please also send them to linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, since that's
the happening place for arch/arm/ and they'll likely get reviewed there.
Cheers,
Will
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