Hi Nadav,
Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve:
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> Sorry about dragging mainframes into this, but this will only work for
> homogenous device coupling, not for heterogenous. Consider my vfio-pci
> + virtio-net-ccw example again: The guest cannot find out that the two
> belong together
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 3:54 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:06:07 -0700
> Siwei Liu wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:57:11 -0700
>> > Siwei Liu wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Cornelia. With q
On 19 June 2018 at 19:37, David Vrabel wrote:
> It's not clear how this increases security. What threats is this
> protecting again?
It won't completely protect prevent rootkits, because still rootkits
can edit dynamic kernel data structures, but it will limit what
rootkits damage to only dynamic
On 12/06/18 13:50, Nadav Amit wrote:
> GCC considers the number of statements in inlined assembly blocks,
> according to new-lines and semicolons, as an indication to the cost of
> the block in time and space. This data is distorted by the kernel code,
> which puts information in alternative sectio
On 13/06/18 23:05, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> paravirt depends on a custom calling convention (callee saved), but
> expects this from a static inline function that it then forces to be
> outlined. This is problematic because different compilers or flags can
> then add a stack guard that violates the
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 08:13:37PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> On 06/19/2018 11:05 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 01:06:48AM +, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> > > On Monday, June 18, 2018 10:29 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 01:09:44AM +, Wang, W
On 06/19/2018 11:05 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 01:06:48AM +, Wang, Wei W wrote:
On Monday, June 18, 2018 10:29 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 01:09:44AM +, Wang, Wei W wrote:
Not necessarily, I think. We have min(4m_page_blocks / 512, 1
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:06:07 -0700
Siwei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:57:11 -0700
> > Siwei Liu wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Cornelia. With questions below, I
> >> think you raised really good points, som
