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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 32-bit PTI with THP = userspace corruption
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:20:33 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzo3b2aChbJ2aOSvKbguYKMG8wv02NS8qzp6w2T5z8WTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180911114927.gikd3uf3otxn2ekq@suse.de>

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:49 AM Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> wrote:
>
> I had a look into the THP and the HugeTLBfs code, and that is not
> really easy to fix there. As I can see it now, there are a few options
> to fix that, but most of them are ugly:

Just do (4): disable PTI with PAE.

Then we can try to make people perhaps not use !PAE very much, and
warn if you have PAE disabled on a machine that supports it.

As you say, there shouldn't be much of a performance impact from PAE.
There is a more noticeable performance impact from HIGHMEM, not from
HIGHMEM_64G, iirc.

                Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-11 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-30 18:09 Meelis Roos
2018-08-30 20:55 ` Joerg Roedel
2018-08-31  4:12   ` Meelis Roos
2018-08-31  7:07     ` Joerg Roedel
2018-09-08 10:24       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-11 11:49         ` Joerg Roedel
2018-09-11 11:58           ` Meelis Roos
2018-09-11 12:12             ` Joerg Roedel
2018-09-18 13:00               ` Alan Cox
2018-10-21 12:37                 ` Pavel Machek
2018-10-22  7:56                   ` Joerg Roedel
2018-10-22 18:48                     ` Alan Cox
2018-10-23  9:11                       ` Not-so-old machines without PAE was " Pavel Machek
2018-10-22 20:56                     ` Pavel Machek
2018-09-11 18:20           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-08-31  7:10   ` Meelis Roos

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