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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jan 19 2018 - 05:55:41 EST


Hi!

> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>
> Hi,
>
> here is my current WIP code to enable PTI on x86-32. It is
> still in a pretty early state, but it successfully boots my
> KVM guest with PAE and with legacy paging. The existing PTI
> code for x86-64 already prepares a lot of the stuff needed
> for 32 bit too, thanks for that to all the people involved
> in its development :)

Thanks for doing the work.

I tried applying it on top of -next, and that did not succeed. Let me
try Linus tree...

> 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.

Um. Ok, testing is something I can do. At least I have excuse to power
on T40p.

Ok... Testing is something I can do... If I can get it to compile.

CC arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.o
arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c: In function
âptdump_walk_user_pgd_level_checkwxâ:
arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:546:26: error: âinit_top_pgtâ
undeclared (first use in this function)
pgd_t *pgd = (pgd_t *) &init_top_pgt;
^
arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:546:26:
note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
function it appears in
scripts/Makefile.build:316: recipe for target
'arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.o' failed
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.o] Error 1
scripts/Makefile.build:575: recipe for target 'arch/x86/mm' failed
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/mm] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
CC arch/x86/platform/intel/iosf_mbi.o

Ok, I guess I can disable some config option...
Pavel

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