Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

[Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com>]

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
> > My code does nothing do it.
> > 
> > I need a volunteer to implement it.
> 
> it's actually not too hard; all you need is to use SSE and not MMX; and
> then just store sse register you're overwriting on the stack or so...

oh, really? Does the linux kernel take care of
SSE save/restore on a task switch?

Regards,
  Hiro
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