On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 03:26:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Maybe it's the lguest games with PGE that need to be removed?

Btw, tglx suggested something else the other day: warn when we're
changing boot_cpu_data x86_capability bits *after* alternatives have
run. The reasoning behind it being that potentially some patching
static_cpu_has() has done won't be correct anymore.

And it is pretty cheap to do it, it fires nicely on the 32-bit config
with LGUEST=y.

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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h 
b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index d59c15c3defd..f06c3dc6db70 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -124,8 +124,18 @@ extern const char * const x86_bug_flags[NBUGINTS*32];
 
 #define boot_cpu_has(bit)      cpu_has(&boot_cpu_data, bit)
 
-#define set_cpu_cap(c, bit)    set_bit(bit, (unsigned long 
*)((c)->x86_capability))
-#define clear_cpu_cap(c, bit)  clear_bit(bit, (unsigned long 
*)((c)->x86_capability))
+#define set_cpu_cap(c, bit)                                    \
+({                                                             \
+       WARN_ON(c == &boot_cpu_data && alternatives_patched);   \
+       set_bit(bit, (unsigned long *)((c)->x86_capability));   \
+})
+
+#define clear_cpu_cap(c, bit)                                  \
+({                                                             \
+       WARN_ON(c == &boot_cpu_data && alternatives_patched);   \
+       clear_bit(bit, (unsigned long *)((c)->x86_capability)); \
+})
+
 #define setup_clear_cpu_cap(bit) do { \
        clear_cpu_cap(&boot_cpu_data, bit);     \
        set_bit(bit, (unsigned long *)cpu_caps_cleared); \

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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(AG Nürnberg)
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