Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86-64: Remove syscall instructions at fixed addresses

From: Andrew Lutomirski
Date: Mon May 30 2011 - 22:33:42 EST


On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Btw., do you know CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP=y and /debug/kernel_page_tables?
> You could use that to double check that after your patches all
> executable (and fixed address) pages are removed [or are harmless].

Done. Now there's only one user-executable page and it's mostly harmless.

Maybe I'll try to get rid of vread_tsc and vread_hpet later on to make
it even more harmless.

--Andy
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