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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 00/16] PTI support for x86-32
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    On 01/16/2018 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >> The code has not run on bare-metal yet, I'll test that in
    >> the next days once I setup a 32 bit box again. I also havn't
    >> tested Wine and DosEMU yet, so this might also be broken.
    > .. and please run all the segment and syscall selfchecks that Andy has written.
    >
    > But yes, checking bare metal, and checking the "odd" applications like
    > Wine and dosemu (and kvm etc) within the PTI kernel is certainly a
    > good idea.

    I tried to document a list of the "gotchas" that tripped us up during
    the 64-bit effort under "Testing":

    > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/pti&id=01c9b17bf673b05bb401b76ec763e9730ccf1376

    NMIs were a biggie too.

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