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PKRU is currently partly XSAVE-managed and partly not. It has space in the task XSAVE buffer and is context-switched by XSAVE/XRSTOR. However, it is switched more eagerly than FPU because there may be a need for PKRU to be up-to-date for things like copy_to/from_user() since PKRU affects user-permission memory accesses, not just accesses from userspace itself. This leaves PKRU in a very odd position. XSAVE brings very little value to the table for how Linux uses PKRU except for signal related XSTATE handling. Prepare to move PKRU away from being XSAVE-managed. Allocate space in the thread_struct for it and save/restore it in the context-switch path separately from the XSAVE-managed features. task->thread_struct.pkru is only valid when the task is scheduled out. For the current task the authoritative source is the hardware, i.e. it has to be retrieved via rdpkru(). Leave the XSAVE code in place for now to ensure bisectability. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210623121456.399107624@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.