On October 18, 2019 3:45:14 AM PDT, David Laight
wrote:
>From: Luck, Tony
>> Sent: 18 October 2019 00:28
>...
>> 2) Fix set_bit() et. al. to not issue atomic operations that cross
>boundaries.
>>
>> Fenghua had been pursuing option #1 in previous iterations. He found
>a few
>> more places with
From: Luck, Tony
> Sent: 18 October 2019 00:28
...
> 2) Fix set_bit() et. al. to not issue atomic operations that cross boundaries.
>
> Fenghua had been pursuing option #1 in previous iterations. He found a few
> more places with the help of the "grep" patterns suggested by David Laight.
> So
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 06:20:44PM +0800, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> We enable #AC on all cores/threads to detect split lock.
> -If user space causes #AC, sending SIGBUS to it.
> -If kernel causes #AC, we globally disable #AC on all cores/threads,
> letting kernel go on working and WARN. (only
On 10/18/2019 5:02 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
On 10/17/2019 8:29 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
The more I look at this trainwreck, the less interested I am in merging any
of this at all.
The fact that it took Intel more than a year to figure out that the
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> On 10/17/2019 8:29 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The more I look at this trainwreck, the less interested I am in merging any
> > of this at all.
> >
> > The fact that it took Intel more than a year to figure out that the MSR is
> > per core and not per
On 10/17/2019 8:29 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
The more I look at this trainwreck, the less interested I am in merging any
of this at all.
The fact that it took Intel more than a year to figure out that the MSR is
per core and not per thread is yet another proof that this industry just
works by
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:31:15PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:29:45PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > The more I look at this trainwreck, the less interested I am in merging
> > > any
> > > of this at all.
> >
> If that's not going to happen, then we just bury the whole thing and put it
> on hold until a sane implementation of that functionality surfaces in
> silicon some day in the not so foreseeable future.
We will drop the patches to flip the MSR bits to enable checking.
But we can fix the split
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:29:45PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The more I look at this trainwreck, the less interested I am in merging any
> > of this at all.
> >
> > The fact that it took Intel more than a year to figure out that the MSR is
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:29:45PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The more I look at this trainwreck, the less interested I am in merging any
> of this at all.
>
> The fact that it took Intel more than a year to figure out that the MSR is
> per core and not per thread is yet another proof that
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