From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524C3C43219 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EDE216FD for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729716AbfD3ApG (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:45:06 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:53516 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729238AbfD3ApG (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:45:06 -0400 X-Amp-Result: UNSCANNABLE X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga007.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.52]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 29 Apr 2019 17:45:05 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.60,411,1549958400"; d="scan'208";a="146939893" Received: from sjchrist-coffee.jf.intel.com (HELO linux.intel.com) ([10.54.74.181]) by fmsmga007.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Apr 2019 17:45:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:45:04 -0700 From: Sean Christopherson To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Lutomirski , Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra , Nicolai Stange , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , Josh Poimboeuf , Jiri Kosina , Miroslav Benes , Petr Mladek , Joe Lawrence , Shuah Khan , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Tim Chen , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Mimi Zohar , Juergen Gross , Nick Desaulniers , Nayna Jain , Masahiro Yamada , Joerg Roedel , Linux List Kernel Mailing , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/ftrace: make ftrace_int3_handler() not to skip fops invocation Message-ID: <20190430004504.GH31379@linux.intel.com> References: <20190429220814.GF31379@linux.intel.com> <20190430000846.GG31379@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190430000846.GG31379@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:08:46PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 03:22:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 3:08 PM Sean Christopherson > > wrote: > > > > > > FWIW, Lakemont (Quark) doesn't block NMI/SMI in the STI shadow, but I'm > > > not sure that counters the "horrible errata" statement ;-). SMI+RSM saves > > > and restores STI blocking in that case, but AFAICT NMI has no such > > > protection and will effectively break the shadow on its IRET. > > > > Ugh. I can't say I care deeply about Quark (ie never seemed to go > > anywhere), but it's odd. I thought it was based on a Pentium core (or > > i486+?). Are you saying those didn't do it either? > > It's 486 based, but either way I suspect the answer is "yes". IIRC, > Knights Corner, a.k.a. Larrabee, also had funkiness around SMM and that > was based on P54C, though I'm struggling to recall exactly what the > Larrabee weirdness was. Aha! Found an ancient comment that explicitly states P5 does not block NMI/SMI in the STI shadow, while P6 does block NMI/SMI.