Re: [PATCH v7 03/14] x86/cet/ibt: Add IBT legacy code bitmap setup function

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On 6/7/19 9:35 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> One might reasonably wonder why this state is privileged in the first
> place and, given that, why we’re allowing it to be written like
> this.

I think it's generally a good architectural practice to make things like
this privileged.  They're infrequent so can survive the cost of a trip
in/out of the kernel and are a great choke point to make sure the OS is
involved.  I wish we had the same for MPX or pkeys per-task "setup".




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