netdev - RE: [PATCH v8 13/15] x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by default

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904251501430.1960@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:04:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
cc:     'Fenghua Yu' <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v8 13/15] x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by
 default

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019, David Laight wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixne]
> > Sent: 25 April 2019 11:59
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2019, David Laight wrote:
> > 
> > > From:  Fenghua Yu
> > > > Sent: 24 April 2019 20:33
> > > > A split locked access locks bus and degrades overall memory access
> > > > performance. When split lock detection feature is enumerated, enable
> > > > the feature by default by writing 1 to bit 29 in MSR TEST_CTL to find
> > > > any split lock issue.
> > >
> > > You can't enable this by default until ALL the known potentially
> > > misaligned locked memory operations have been fixed.
> > 
> > Errm? The result will be a WARN_ON() printed and no further damage.
> 
> ISTR something about sending SIGSEGV to userspace.

Nope. If the #AC originates from kernel then a warning is printed and the
detection is disabled.

Userspace is a different story. We cannot audit all user space upfront,
right?

> > It's not making anything worse than it is now. In fact we just should add a
> > 
> >     WARN_ON_ONCE(!aligned_to_long(p)) to all the xxx_bit() operations.
> > 
> > so we catch them even when they do not trigger that #AC thingy.
> 
> That will explode the kernel code size.

So what? We have enough debug options which make the kernel big. One more
does not really matter.

Thanks,

	tglx