Re: [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] x86/entry/pti: don't switch PGD on when pti_disable is set

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The other case may be the CLONE_NEW* operations. I *think* they are
> noops as far as PTI settings would be, but I think people should think
> about them.

Oh, and yes, I think the npti flag should also break ptrace(). I do
agree with Andy that it's a "capability", although I do not think it
should actually be implemented as one.

                   Linus