Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 05:26:19 EST


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:16 +0900, Hiro Yoshioka wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > My code does nothing do it.
> > >
> > > I need a volunteer to implement it.
> >
> > it's actually not too hard; all you need is to use SSE and not MMX; and
> > then just store sse register you're overwriting on the stack or so...
>
> oh, really? Does the linux kernel take care of
> SSE save/restore on a task switch?

not on kernel entry afaik.
However just save the register on the stack and put it back at the
end...


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