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| author | Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> | 2016-04-07 17:31:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-04-13 10:20:41 +0200 |
| commit | 7a5d67048745e3eab62779c6d043a2e3d95dc848 (patch) | |
| tree | c3052c7d6e5b675ced4c3a7edb2f7a6c2c7bb65f /tools/perf/scripts/python/bin | |
| parent | d47b50e7a111bb7a56fb1c974728b56209d7f515 (diff) | |
x86/cpu: Probe the behavior of nulling out a segment at boot time
AMD and Intel do different things when writing zero to a segment
selector. Since neither vendor documents the behavior well and it's
easy to test the behavior, try nulling fs to see what happens.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rudolf Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/61588ba0e0df35beafd363dc8b68a4c5878ef095.1460075211.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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