On 01/04/2018 10:16 PM, Yisheng Xie wrote: > BTW, we have just reported a bug caused by kaiser[1], which looks like > caused by SMEP. Could you please help to have a look? > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/5/3 Please report that to your kernel vendor. Your EFI page tables have the NX bit set on the low addresses. There have been a bunch of iterations of this, but you need to make sure that the EFI kernel mappings don't get _PAGE_NX set on them. Look at what __pti_set_user_pgd() does in mainline. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>