linux-kernel - Re: [RFD] x86/split_lock: Request to Intel

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Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:43:07 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] x86/split_lock: Request to Intel

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 disabling #AC on the thread
> generates it just doesn't help, since the buggy kernel code is possible to
> run on any threads and thus disabling #AC on all of them)
> 
> As described above, either enabled globally or disabled globally, so whether
> it's per-core or per-thread really doesn't matter

Go back and read the friggin' thread already. A big clue: virt ruins it
(like it tends to do).