On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:29:39PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> modify_ldt has questionable locking and does not synchronize
> threads.  Improve it: redesign the locking and synchronize all
> threads' LDTs using an IPI on all modifications.
> 
> This will dramatically slow down modify_ldt in multithreaded
> programs, but there shouldn't be any multithreaded programs that
> care about modify_ldt's performance in the first place.
> 
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

I've stared a lot at this one these days, I guess a

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>

is in order.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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