* Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calde...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> The instructions STR and SLDT are not emulated in any case. Thus, it made
> sense to not implement functionality to identify them. However, a
> subsequent commit will introduce functionality to warn about the use of
> all the instructions that UMIP protect, not only those that are emulated.
> A first step for that is the ability to identify them.
>
> Plus, now that STR and SLDT are identified, we need to explicitly avoid
> their emulation (i.e., not rely on unsuccessful identification). Group
> togehter all the cases that we do not want to emulate: STR, SLDT and user
> long mode processes.
>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shan...@intel.com>
> Cc: x...@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calde...@linux.intel.com>
Sigh, the _title_ still refers to 'str'...
I'll fix it up, no need to resend, but this lack of attention to details is
seriously sad.
Thanks,
Ingo
