linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch

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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:28:08 -0800
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, valentin.schneider@....com,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch



> On Feb 15, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 09:18:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:34 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Something like the below, right?
>>> 
>>> +       frame->flags = 0;
>>> +       frame->flags = 0;
>> 
>> Those are not valid flag values.
>> 
>> Can you popf them? Yes.
>> 
>> Do they make sense? No.
>> 
>> It has the IF flag clear, for example. Is that intentional? If it is,
> 
> Uhmm. yeah, that's bonkers. We should have interrupts disabled here.
> I'll go read up on the eflags and figure out what they _should_ be right
> about there.

And probably add a comment near the POPF explaining that it will keep IRQs off :)