From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f69.google.com (mail-oi0-f69.google.com [209.85.218.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887BB6B0033 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:01:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-oi0-f69.google.com with SMTP id s144so553469oih.5 for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:01:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com. [217.140.101.70]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a53si2309233otj.509.2017.11.02.12.01.04 for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:01:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 19:01:07 +0000 From: Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from userspace page tables Message-ID: <20171102190106.GC22263@arm.com> References: <20171031223146.6B47C861@viggo.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171031223146.6B47C861@viggo.jf.intel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Hi Dave, [+linux-arm-kernel] On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 03:31:46PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > KAISER makes it harder to defeat KASLR, but makes syscalls and > interrupts slower. These patches are based on work from a team at > Graz University of Technology posted here[1]. The major addition is > support for Intel PCIDs which builds on top of Andy Lutomorski's PCID > work merged for 4.14. PCIDs make KAISER's overhead very reasonable > for a wide variety of use cases. I just wanted to say that I've got a version of this up and running for arm64. I'm still ironing out a few small details, but I hope to post it after the merge window. We always use ASIDs, and the perf impact looks like it aligns roughly with your findings for a PCID-enabled x86 system. Cheers, Will -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org