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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 01:06:52 +0000 From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com> To: "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com> CC: "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>, "Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>, "Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>, "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/8] x86/traps: Demand-populate PASID MSR via #GP >> fpregs_lock(); > > I'm afraid we may hit the same locking issue when we send IPI to notify another task to modify its > PASID state. Here the API is called to modify another running task's PASID state as well without a right lock. > fpregs_lock() is not enough to deal with this, I'm afraid. We don't send IPI any more to change PASID state. The only place that the current patch series touches the PASID MSR is in the #GP fault handler. -Tony
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