{"id":763085,"date":"2020-06-01T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=763085"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:23:49","slug":"a-possible-end-to-the-fsgsbase-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=763085","title":{"rendered":"[$] A possible end to the FSGSBASE saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/ml\/linux-kernel\/20200528201402.1708239-1-sashal@kernel.org\/\">FSGSBASE<br \/>\npatch series<\/a> is up to its thirteenth version as of late May.  It<br \/>\nenables some &#8220;new&#8221;<br \/>\ninstructions for the x86 architecture, opening the way for a number of<br \/>\nsignificant performance improvements.  One might think that such a patch<br \/>\nseries would be a shoe-in, but FSGSBASE has had a troubled history;<br \/>\nmeanwhile, the delays in getting it merged may have led to a number of<br \/>\nusers installing root holes on their Linux systems in the hope of improving<br \/>\nsecurity.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/821723\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[$] A possible end to the FSGSBASE saga<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FSGSBASE patch series is up to its thirteenth version as of late May. It enables some &#8220;new&#8221; instructions for the x86 architecture, opening the way for a number of significant performance improvements. One might think that such a patch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=763085\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-763085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}