On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:02 AM Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote: > > > > - just restart the instruction (with the suggested "ptregs->rip --") > > > > - to avoid any "oh, we're not making progress" issues, just fix the > > instruction yourself to be the right call, by looking it up in the > > "what needs to be fixed" tables. > > I thought that too. I think it deadlocks. CPU A does text_poke_bp(). CPU B > is waiting for a spinlock with IRQs off. CPU C holds the spinlock and hits > the int3. The int3 never goes away because CPU A is waiting for CPU B to > handle the sync_core IPI. > > Or do you think we can avoid the IPI while the int3 is there?
I'm handwaving and thinking that CPU C that hits the int3 can just fix up the instruction directly in its own caches, and return. Yes, it does what he "text_poke" *will* do (so now the instruction gets rewritten _twice_), but who cares? It's idempotent. And no, I don't have code, just "maybe some handwaving like this" Linus