On 01/16/2018 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> The code has not run on bare-metal yet, I'll test that in >> the next days once I setup a 32 bit box again. I also havn't >> tested Wine and DosEMU yet, so this might also be broken. > .. and please run all the segment and syscall selfchecks that Andy has written. > > But yes, checking bare metal, and checking the "odd" applications like > Wine and dosemu (and kvm etc) within the PTI kernel is certainly a > good idea. I tried to document a list of the "gotchas" that tripped us up during the 64-bit effort under "Testing": > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/pti&id=01c9b17bf673b05bb401b76ec763e9730ccf1376 NMIs were a biggie too. -- 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>
