From: Peter Zijlstra Sent: November 5, 2018 at 1:30:41 PM GMT > To: Nadav Amit <na...@vmware.com> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, > x...@kernel.org, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner > <t...@linutronix.de>, Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>, Dave Hansen > <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>, Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>, Kees Cook > <keesc...@chromium.org>, Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>, Masami > Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] x86/alternatives: use temporary mm for text poking > > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:29:45PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote: >> + unuse_temporary_mm(prev); >> + >> + pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); > > That; that does kunmap_atomic() on 32bit. > > I've been thinking that the whole kmap_atomic thing on x86_32 is > terminally broken, and with that most of x86_32 is. > > kmap_atomic does the per-cpu fixmap pte fun-and-games we're here saying > is broken. Yes, only the one CPU will (explicitly) use those fixmap PTEs > and thus the local invalidate _should_ work. However nothing prohibits > speculation on another CPU from using our fixmap addresses. Which can > lead to the remote CPU populating its TLBs for our fixmap entry. > > And, as we've found, there are AMD parts that #MC when there are > mis-matched TLB entries. > > So what do we do? mark x86_32 SMP broken?
pte_unmap() seems to only use kunmap_atomic() when CONFIG_HIGHPTE is set, no? Do most distributions run with CONFIG_HIGHPTE?
