Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] PTI support for x86-32

[Dave Hansen]

On 01/16/2018 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> The code has not run on bare-metal yet, I'll test that in
>> the next days once I setup a 32 bit box again. I also havn't
>> tested Wine and DosEMU yet, so this might also be broken.
> .. and please run all the segment and syscall selfchecks that Andy has written.
> 
> But yes, checking bare metal, and checking the "odd" applications like
> Wine and dosemu (and kvm etc) within the PTI kernel is certainly a
> good idea.

I tried to document a list of the "gotchas" that tripped us up during
the 64-bit effort under "Testing":

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/pti&id=01c9b17bf673b05bb401b76ec763e9730ccf1376

NMIs were a biggie too.