Intel hardware bug

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 3 19:01:48 UTC 2018


Hello Joey,

Wednesday, January 3, 2018, 4:56:50 AM, you wrote:

> No way around it. It's hardware FAIL, and ignoring it isn't an option since
> it's apparently a huge hole.
 Looks like there IS way around it and it was "silently" committed to Linux

http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table

 But TLB flush on each syscall (twice) will slow down system, of course, so
there should be option to disable it.

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Best regards,
 Lev                            mailto:lev at FreeBSD.org



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