Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] selftests/x86/ldt_gdt: Prepare for access bit forced

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Dec 14 2017 - 14:43:27 EST


On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If this turns out to need reverting because it breaks Wine or
> something, we're really going to regret it.

I really don't see that as very likely. We already play other (much
more fundamental) games with segments.

But I do agree that it would be good to consider this "turn LDT
read-only" a separate series just in case.

Linus