Re: [PATCH] sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch

Linus Torvalds
2019-02-19T00:24:52Z

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:31 PM H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> The question is what "fix it" means. I'm really concerned about AC escapes,
> and everyone else should be, too.

I do think that it might be the right thing to do to add some kind of
WARN_ON_ONCE() for AC being set in various can-reschedule situations.

We'd just have to abstract it sanely. I'm sure arm64 has the exact
same issue with PAN - maybe it saves properly, but the same "we
wouldn't want to go through the scheduler with PAN clear".

On x86, we might as well check DF at the same time as AC.

Linus