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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead•org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel•org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis•org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital•net>,
	Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel•org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	stable <stable@vger•kernel.org>,
	Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail•com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google•com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium•org>,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel•org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	bpf@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kprobe: Do not use uaccess functions to access kernel memory that can fault
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 19:57:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190226035741.GA14994@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wh9uWJaih5i6qBPer5rzcs=A+yb_ejU093b1esAhoFveQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 01:59:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:38 PM David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:
> >
> > Don't be surprised if we see more separation like this in the future too.
> 
> Yes, with the whole meltdown fiasco, there's actually more pressure to
> add more support for separation of kernel/user address spaces. As Andy
> pointed out, it's been discussed as a future wish-list for x86-64 too.

S/390 is another example.

I've also proposed a RISC-V extension for it, including prototypes
for Rocketchip and Qemu, and a Linux kernel support, but it didn't go
any way.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-26  3:57 UTC|newest]

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2019-02-22 19:27                   ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] kprobe: Do not use uaccess functions to access kernel memory that can fault Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-22 19:30                     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-22 19:34                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-22 19:39                         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-22 19:55                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-22 21:43                           ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 22:08                             ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-22 22:17                               ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 22:21                                 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-22 22:39                                   ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-22 23:02                                     ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 23:22                                       ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-22 23:59                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-23  0:03                                         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-23  0:15                                         ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-24 19:35                                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-25 13:36                                         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-22 21:20                     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 21:38                       ` David Miller
2019-02-22 21:59                         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 22:51                           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-22 23:11                             ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 23:16                               ` David Miller
2019-02-22 23:16                             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 23:56                               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-23  0:08                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-23  2:28                                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-23  2:32                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-23  3:02                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-23  4:51                                 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-26  3:57                           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-02-26 15:24                     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-02-28 12:29                       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-28 15:18                         ` Joel Fernandes

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