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On Sun, 15 May 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:16:09PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > > El Fri, 13 May 2005 20:03:58 +0200, > > Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> escribi?: > > > > > > > This is not a kernel problem, but a user space problem. The fix > > > is to change the user space crypto code to need the same number of cache line > > > accesses on all keys. > > > > > > However they've patched the FreeBSD kernel to "workaround?" it: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-05:09/htt5.patch > > That's a similar stupid idea as they did with the disk write > cache (lowering the MTBFs of their disks by considerable factors, > which is much worse than the power off data loss problem) > Let's not go down this path please. What wrong did they do with disk write cache? Mikulas > -Andi > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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