Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 00/21] x86/pti: Defer CR3 switch to C code

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:47:36PM +0100, Alexandre Chartre wrote:
> Deferring CR3 switch to C code means that we need to run more of the
> kernel entry code with the user page-table. To do so, we need to:
> 
>  - map more syscall, interrupt and exception entry code into the user
>    page-table (map all noinstr code);
> 
>  - map additional data used in the entry code (such as stack canary);
> 
>  - run more entry code on the trampoline stack (which is mapped both
>    in the kernel and in the user page-table) until we switch to the
>    kernel page-table and then switch to the kernel stack;

So PTI was added exactly to *not* have kernel memory mapped in the user
page table. You're partially reversing that...

>  - have a per-task trampoline stack instead of a per-cpu trampoline
>    stack, so the task can be scheduled out while it hasn't switched
>    to the kernel stack.

per-task? How much more memory is that per task?

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