linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 0/2] x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace

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Date:   Mon,  7 Nov 2016 11:13:38 +0800
From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 0/2] x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace

 RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
 rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
 RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
 no locks held by swapper/1/0.

  do_trace_write_msr
  native_write_msr
  native_apic_msr_eoi_write
  smp_reschedule_interrupt
  reschedule_interrupt

Reschedule interrupt may be called in CPU idle state. This causes lockdep
check warning above.

As Peterz pointed out:

| The thing is, many many smp_reschedule_interrupt() invocations don't
| actually execute anything much at all and are only sent to tickle the
| return to user path (which does the actual preemption).
| 
| Having to do the whole irq_enter/irq_exit dance just for this unlikely
| debug case totally blows.

This patchset adds x2apic write eoi msr notrace to avoid the debug codes 
splash and reverts irq_enter/irq_exit dance to avoid to make a very frequent 
interrupt slower because of debug code.

v7 -> v8:
 * cleanup patch 2/2 descriptions

v6 -> v7:
 * cleanup storage class should be at the beginning of the declaration

v5 -> v6:
 * split the patch 
 * don't duplicate the inline asm

v4 -> v5:
 * add notrace mark 

v3 -> v4: 
 * add notrace mark 

v2 -> v3:
 * revert irq_enter/irq_exit() since it is merged

v1 -> v2:
 * add write msr notrace to avoid debug codes splash instead of slowdown 
   a very frequent interrupt

Wanpeng Li (2):
  x86/msr: Add write msr notrace
  x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace

 arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h  | 14 +++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c       |  4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/smp.c       |  2 --
 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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