linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/math64: handle #DE in mul_u64_u64_div

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Message-ID: <20250724082547.GB10980@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:25:48 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: David Laight <david.laight.linux@...il.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Li,Rongqing" <lirongqing@...du.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/math64: handle #DE in mul_u64_u64_div_u64()

On 07/24, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/23, David Laight wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:38:25 +0200
> > Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > to remove the conditional branch and additional variable. Your version
> > > is probably beterr... But this is without WARN/BUG.
> >
> > I wish there was a way of doing a WARN_ONCE from asm with a single instruction.
> > Then you could put one after your 2:
> > Otherwise is it a conditional and a load of inlined code.
> >
> > > So, which version do you prefer?
> >
> > I wish I knew :-)
>
> ;-)
>
> David, you understand this asm magic indefinitely better than me. Plus you are
> working on the generic code. Can you send the patch which looks right to you?
> I agree in advance with anything you do.
>
> I got lost. Now I don't even understand if we want to add BUG and/or WARN into
> mul_u64_u64_div_u64().

Forgot to mention... Not that I think this is a good idea, but if we don't
use BUG/WARN, we can probably add EX_FLAG_ and do something like below.

Oleg.

--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ static bool ex_handler_default(const struct exception_table_entry *e,
 	if (e->data & EX_FLAG_CLEAR_DX)
 		regs->dx = 0;
 
+	if (e->data & EX_FLAG_XXX_AX)
+		regs->ax = -1ul;
+
 	regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(e);
 	return true;
 }