Re: [PATCH v9 00/17] Enable FSGSBASE instructions

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Apr 17 2020 - 09:30:25 EST


On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 05:32:05PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
Is my attempt at understanding the current situation correct?

Yes.

Nothing breaks, and it's a nice improvement for context switch
performance, in NMI/PMU performance, and also gives user space two free
registers to play around with.

Thomas, Andy,

Could you list your outstanding objections to this patchset? I know it
might be rehashing stuff you've already mentioned in this thread but I
think that there's a disconnect between folks and it'll help with
restarting everything.

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Thanks,
Sasha