Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] x86/pti: don't mark the user PGD with _PAGE_NX.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:23:49AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 01/08/2018 09:17 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >> I think the prctl() should apply to an entire process, not to a thread.
> > 
> > As I mentionned in another mail, I didn't know how to do it, even less
> > how to do it fast enough so that we didn't add more cycles to the syscall
> > code.
> 
> You can _implement_ it with a task thread if you want.  Just spray it
> across all threads at the prctl()-time instead of a single thread.
> It'll take a wee bit of locking.
> 
> I just don't think the API should apply to a single thread.

It is surprisingly hard to find all tasks that share an mm. Finding all
threads in a threadgroup is easy, but we have CLONE_THREAD and CLONE_VM
as separate bits.

In any case, aside from that, setting this remotely is indeed
'intersting'.