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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Singh, Balbir" <sblbir@amazon.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com"
	<clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-safety@lists.elisa.tech" <linux-safety@lists.elisa.tech>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next for tip:x86/pti] x86/tlb: drop unneeded local vars in enable_l1d_flush_for_task()
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 10:19:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001081958.GO2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f57cbe-ba33-17d5-440c-2765e670782f@amazon.com>


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On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:49:30AM +1000, Singh, Balbir wrote:

> So this is the change I am playing with, I don't like the idea of
> killing the task, but it's better than silently not flushing, I guess
> system administrators will learn with time not to correctly the
> affinity of tasks flushing L1D. For the affinity bits, not being able
> to change the affinity is better, but not being able to provide
> feedback on as to why is a bit weird as well, but I wonder if there
> are other cases where we might want to lock the affinity of a task for
> it's lifetime.

You can't really do that, hot-unplug can (and will) destroy any affinity
setting, and if the task/admin wants to recover it needs to be able to
re-set affinity after that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-28 12:44 [PATCH -next for tip:x86/pti] x86/tlb: drop unneeded local vars in enable_l1d_flush_for_task() Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-28 20:43 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-09-29  7:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-29  8:33   ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-29  8:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 15:40     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-09-30 16:53       ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-30 17:03       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 18:00         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-09-30 18:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 21:38             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-09-30 22:59               ` Singh, Balbir
2020-09-30 23:49               ` Singh, Balbir
2020-10-01  0:48                 ` Singh, Balbir
2020-10-01  8:17                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-01  8:19                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-09-30 22:46           ` Singh, Balbir

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