Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] s390/uaccess: Add storage key checked cmpxchg access to user space

Janis Schoetterl-Glausch
2022-11-16T19:37:10Z

On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 15:12 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
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> I also did not limit the number of retries for the one and two byte
> scenarion. Before doing that we need to have proof that there really is a
> problem. Maybe Nico or you will give this a try.

I wrote a memop selftest testcase where the main thread uses the one byte cmpxchg
while n vcpus flip adjacent bits. The time the test case runs increases superlinearly with n.
With 248 vcpus, 1000 one byte cmpxchgs take 25s.
I'm not sure how meaningful the test is since the worst case would be if the threads hammering
the word would run on a cpu dedicated to them.

In any case, why not err on the side of caution and limit the iterations?
I'll send an rfc patch.
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> Thanks,
> Heiko