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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>,
	Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/6] x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:38:54 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610280038260.4913@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUXCA+-gWxvAVJf=zRPFP=_t600pdVPC44SFL5v_YxOMQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> Let's just do this right from day one:
> 
> static void set_cpuid_faulting(bool on)
> {
>   u64 msrval;
> 
>   DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> 
>   msrval = this_cpu_read(msr_misc_features_enables_shadow);
>   msrval &= CPUID_FAULT_ENABLE;
>   msrval |= (on << CPUID_FAULT_ENABLE_BIT);
>   this_cpu_write(msr_misc_features_enables_shadow, msrval);
>   wrmsrl(MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES, msrval);
> }
> 
> RDMSR may be considerably faster than WRMSR, but that doesn't mean it's *fast*.

Good point!

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19  2:03 [PATCH v7 0/6] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction Kyle Huey
2016-10-19  2:03 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl Kyle Huey
2016-10-19  2:03 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] x86/arch_prctl/64: Rename do_arch_prctl to do_arch_prctl_64 Kyle Huey
2016-10-19  2:03 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common Kyle Huey
     [not found] ` <20161019020333.3766-1-khuey-OhBmq/TcCDJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-19  2:03   ` [PATCH v7 4/6] x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32 Kyle Huey
2016-10-19  2:03   ` [PATCH v7 5/6] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support Kyle Huey
     [not found]     ` <20161019020333.3766-6-khuey-OhBmq/TcCDJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-27  8:21       ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-19  2:03 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID Kyle Huey
     [not found]   ` <20161019020333.3766-7-khuey-OhBmq/TcCDJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-27 11:15     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-27 22:34       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-27 22:38         ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-10-25  5:30 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction Kyle Huey
     [not found]   ` <CAP045Apcsb3dVJ1PaDpbJSGmtxK23GRijKWFt5qcBxTnzoyMJQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-25 16:47     ` Thomas Gleixner

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