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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	hpa@zytor.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] x86/split_lock: Avoid runtime reads of the TEST_CTRL MSR
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:06:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo7bovb7.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200315050517.127446-3-xiaoyao.li@intel.com>

Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> writes:
> +/*
> + * Soft copy of MSR_TEST_CTRL initialized when we first read the
> + * MSR. Used at runtime to avoid using rdmsr again just to collect
> + * the reserved bits in the MSR. We assume reserved bits are the
> + * same on all CPUs.
> + */
> +static u64 test_ctrl_val;
> +
>  /*
>   * Locking is not required at the moment because only bit 29 of this
>   * MSR is implemented and locking would not prevent that the operation
> @@ -1027,16 +1035,14 @@ static void __init split_lock_setup(void)
>   */
>  static void __sld_msr_set(bool on)
>  {
> -	u64 test_ctrl_val;
> -
> -	rdmsrl(MSR_TEST_CTRL, test_ctrl_val);
> +	u64 val = test_ctrl_val;
>  
>  	if (on)
> -		test_ctrl_val |= MSR_TEST_CTRL_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT;
> +		val |= MSR_TEST_CTRL_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT;
>  	else
> -		test_ctrl_val &= ~MSR_TEST_CTRL_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT;
> +		val &= ~MSR_TEST_CTRL_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT;
>  
> -	wrmsrl(MSR_TEST_CTRL, test_ctrl_val);
> +	wrmsrl(MSR_TEST_CTRL, val);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -1048,11 +1054,13 @@ static void __sld_msr_set(bool on)
>   */
>  static void split_lock_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>  {
> -	u64 test_ctrl_val;
> +	u64 val;
>  
> -	if (rdmsrl_safe(MSR_TEST_CTRL, &test_ctrl_val))
> +	if (rdmsrl_safe(MSR_TEST_CTRL, &val))
>  		goto msr_broken;
>  
> +	test_ctrl_val = val;
> +
>  	switch (sld_state) {
>  	case sld_off:
>  		if (wrmsrl_safe(MSR_TEST_CTRL, test_ctrl_val & ~MSR_TEST_CTRL_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT))

That's just broken. Simply because

       case sld_warn:
       case sld_fatal:

set the split lock detect bit, but the cache variable has it cleared
unless it was set at boot time already.

Thanks,

        tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-23 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-15  5:05 [PATCH v5 0/9] x86/split_lock: Add feature split lock detection Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] x86/split_lock: Rework the initialization flow of " Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-21  0:41   ` Luck, Tony
2020-03-23 17:02   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-23 20:24     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-24  1:10       ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-24 10:29         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-25  0:18           ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-25  0:52             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-24 11:51     ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-24 13:31       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] x86/split_lock: Avoid runtime reads of the TEST_CTRL MSR Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-21  0:43   ` Luck, Tony
2020-03-23 17:06     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-23 17:06   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2020-03-24  1:16     ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] x86/split_lock: Re-define the kernel param option for split_lock_detect Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-21  0:46   ` Luck, Tony
2020-03-23 17:10   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-24  1:38     ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-24 10:40       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-24 18:02         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-24 18:42           ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-25  0:43         ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-25  1:03           ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] x86/split_lock: Export handle_user_split_lock() Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-21  0:48   ` Luck, Tony
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] kvm: x86: Emulate split-lock access as a write Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] kvm: vmx: Extend VMX's #AC interceptor to handle split lock #AC happens in guest Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] kvm: x86: Emulate MSR IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] kvm: vmx: Enable MSR_TEST_CTRL for intel guest Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-15  5:05 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] x86: vmx: virtualize split lock detection Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-23  2:18 ` [PATCH v5 0/9] x86/split_lock: Add feature " Xiaoyao Li

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