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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 3/6] x86/pti: add a per-cpu variable pti_disable
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:01:02AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>
> > [...] If we had "pit_enabled", something like this could be confusing because
> > it's not obvious whether this pti_enabled *enforces* PTI or if its absence
> > disables it :
> >
> > cmpb $0, PER_CPU_VAR(pti_enabled)
> > jz .Lend\@
>
> The natural sequence would be:
>
> cmpb $1, PER_CPU_VAR(pti_enabled)
> jne .Lend\@
>
> which is not confusing to me at all.

In fact I think I know now why it still poses me a problem : this
pti_enabled flag alone is not sufficient to enable PTI, it's just part
of the condition, as another part comes from the X86_FEATURE_PTI flag.
However, pti_disabled is sufficient to disable PTI so actually its
effect matches its name (note BTW that I called it "pti_disable" as a
verb indicating an action -- "I want to disable pti", and not as a past
form "pti is disabled").

Willy

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