On Fri, Nov 06 2020 at 15:29, ira weiny wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SUPERVISOR_PKEYS
> +/*
> + * PKRS is a per-logical-processor MSR which overlays additional protection
> for
> + * pages which have been mapped with a protection key.
> + *
> + * The register is not maintained with XSAVE so
From: Ira Weiny
The PKRS MSR is not managed by XSAVE. It is preserved through a context
switch but this support leaves exception handling code open to memory
accesses during exceptions.
2 possible places for preserving this state were considered,
irqentry_state_t or pt_regs.[1] pt_regs was
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