Re: [kaiser-discuss] KPTI backport to 3.16

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On 01/07/2018 03:35 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I sent this out for review on the stable list after quite minimal
> testing, but have done more since then.  On bare metal (Sandy Bridge,
> with pcid but not invpcid) it crashes at boot.  In fact it
> reboots without any panic message, suggesting a triple fault, as soon
> as I apply the patch that turns on CR4.PCIDE, i.e. without KPTI itself.

My first guess would be something around this stuff:

> commit c7ad5ad297e644601747d6dbee978bf85e14f7bc
> Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sun Sep 10 17:48:27 2017 -0700
> 
>     x86/mm/64: Initialize CR4.PCIDE early

But, if you also want to toss a set of binaries up somewhere that I can
test I can give them a quick run in the simulator or with a hardware
debugger attached.  It's been very useful in getting these things
debugged, especially when normal debugging techniques fail.



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