On 05/02/2014 09:32 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote: >> On my box, this saves about 100ns on each interrupt and trap that >> happens while running in kernel space. This speeds up my kernel_pf >> microbenchmark by about 17%. > > Btw, would you mind _trying_ to do a similar trick for the "return to > user space" case? > > At least as a proof-of-concept, having a code sequence in user mode > trampoline that does > > popq %rsi > popq %r11 > retq $128 > > and building up a stack in user space at '%rsp-128' that has the > values or rsi/r11/rip should allow us to use 'sysret'. Hmm? >
That would be a security hole if another userspace thread could muck with the stack. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/