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Friday, May 28 • 17:30 - 18:00
x86 Stack Switching, and the Improvement Proposals from Hardware Vendors - Andrew Cooper, Citrix

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The 386 processor had fairly sane stack switching semantics but fast forward through 3 decades of features and it is now far from certain that contemporary features can even be implemented safely. This talk will look at the problems which have accumulated in the architecture, and the proposals from Intel and AMD to address the problems, seeing as both proposals are soliciting technical feedback (at the time of writing/presenting).

Speakers
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Andrew Cooper

Lead Software Engineer, Citrix
Andrew is a lead software engineer for XenServer. Upstream, he is an x86 hypervisor maintainer, and a member of the Xen security team.



Friday May 28, 2021 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Toronto
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