linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] x86/traps: Fix up invalid PASID

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Message-ID: <20200616232345.GC15763@romley-ivt3.sc.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:23:46 -0700
From:   Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Jacob Jun Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>,
        Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        amd-gfx <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] x86/traps: Fix up invalid PASID

Hi, Peter,

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:09:28PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:55:29AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> 
> > Or do you suggest to add a random new flag in struct thread_info instead
> > of a TIF flag?
> 
> Why thread_info? What's wrong with something simple like the below. It
> takes a bit from the 'strictly current' flags word.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index b62e6aaf28f0..fca830b97055 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -801,6 +801,9 @@ struct task_struct {
>  	/* Stalled due to lack of memory */
>  	unsigned			in_memstall:1;
>  #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PCI_PASID
> +	unsigned			has_valid_pasid:1;
> +#endif
>  
>  	unsigned long			atomic_flags; /* Flags requiring atomic access. */
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 142b23645d82..10b3891be99e 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -955,6 +955,10 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig, int node)
>  	tsk->use_memdelay = 0;
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PCI_PASID
> +	tsk->has_valid_pasid = 0;
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
>  	tsk->active_memcg = NULL;
>  #endif

Can I add "Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>"
to this patch? I will send this patch in the next version of the series.

Thanks.

-Fenghua