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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH, x86]: Disable CPA cache flush for selfsnoop targets
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:39:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190715193938.GG32439@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1907152033020.1767@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

> Right, we don't know where the PAT invocation comes from and whether they
> are safe to omit flushing the cache. The module load code would be one
> obvious candidate.

Module load just changes the writable/executable status, right? That shouldn't
need to flush in any case because it doesn't change the caching attributes.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-11  8:12 [RFC PATCH, x86]: Disable CPA cache flush for selfsnoop targets Uros Bizjak
2019-07-11 14:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-11 19:00   ` Uros Bizjak
2019-07-15  8:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-15 12:04   ` Uros Bizjak
2019-07-15 16:31 ` Andi Kleen
2019-07-15 18:41   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-15 19:19     ` Uros Bizjak
2019-07-15 19:30       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-15 19:38         ` Andi Kleen
2019-07-15 22:12           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-15 22:53             ` Andi Kleen
2019-07-15 23:10               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-16  0:32                 ` Andi Kleen
2019-07-15 19:39     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2019-07-15 19:44       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-15 19:46       ` Thomas Gleixner

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