linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/cpufeatures: Add enumeration for SERIALIZE instruction

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Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:03:16 -0700
From:   Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Cathy Zhang <cathy.zhang@...el.com>,
        kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        "Christopherson, Sean J" <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@...el.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>, fenghua.yu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/cpufeatures: Add enumeration for SERIALIZE
 instruction

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 01:02:43AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:36:15AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:21 PM Cathy Zhang <cathy.zhang@...el.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > This instruction gives software a way to force the processor to complete
> >> > all modifications to flags, registers and memory from previous instructions
> >> > and drain all buffered writes to memory before the next instruction is
> >> > fetched and executed.
> >> >
> >> > The same effect can be obtained using the cpuid instruction. However,
> >> > cpuid causes modification on the eax, ebx, ecx, and ecx regiters; it
> >> > also causes a VM exit.
> >> >
> >> > A processor supports SERIALIZE instruction if CPUID.0x0x.0x0:EDX[14] is
> >> > present. The CPU feature flag is shown as "serialize" in /proc/cpuinfo.
> >> >
> >> > Detailed information on the instructions and CPUID feature flag SERIALIZE
> >> > can be found in the latest Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions
> >> > and Future Features Programming Reference and Intel 64 and IA-32
> >> > Architectures Software Developer's Manual.
> >> 
> >> Can you also wire this up so sync_core() uses it?
> >
> > I am cc'ing Fenghua, who has volunteered to work on this. Addind support
> > for SERIALIZE in sync_core() should not block merging these patches,
> > correct?
> 
> Come on. We are not serving KVM first before making this usable on bare
> metal.

Hi Thomas,

I ended up implementing support for SERIALIZE in sync_core() I will be
posting patches for this in the next few days.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo