linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v12] x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel

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Date:   Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:15:32 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
CC:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Christopherson, Sean J" <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        "Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v12] x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by
 kernel

>>  static void __init split_lock_setup(void)
>>  {
>> -	enum split_lock_detect_state sld = sld_state;
>> +	enum split_lock_detect_state sld;
>
> This is bike-shedding, but initializing sld = sld_warn here would have
> been enough with no other changes to the patch I think?

Not quite. If there isn't a command line option, we get here:

	if (ret < 0)
		goto print;

which skips copying the local "sld" to the global "sld_state".

-Tony