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From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: "Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>,
	"liaochang (A)" <liaochang1@huawei.com>,
	palmer@dabbelt.com, paul.walmsley@sifive.com,
	mhiramat@kernel.org, conor.dooley@microchip.com,
	penberg@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Guo Ren" <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: kprobe: Optimize kprobe with accurate atomicity
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 11:56:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9jz+zUDebQ4VLlF@andrea> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJF2gTTaartwjVdmtmsm1FqmYVuAq5_nGYU5zc6nkdTtCm200A@mail.gmail.com>

> > It's the concurrent modification that I was referring to (removing
> > stop_machine()). You're saying "it'll always work", I'm saying "I'm not
> > so sure". :-) E.g., writing c.ebreak on an 32b insn. Can you say that
> Software must ensure write c.ebreak on the head of an 32b insn.
> 
> That means IFU only see:
>  - c.ebreak + broken/illegal insn.
> or
>  - origin insn
> 
> Even in the worst case, such as IFU fetches instructions one by one:
> If the IFU gets the origin insn, it will skip the broken/illegal insn.
> If the IFU gets the c.ebreak + broken/illegal insn, then an ebreak
> exception is raised.
> 
> Because c.ebreak would raise an exception, I don't see any problem.

That's the problem, this discussion is:

Reviewer: "I'm not sure, that's not written in our spec"
Submitter: "I said it, it's called -accurate atomicity-"

  Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-31 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-26 16:15 [PATCH] riscv: kprobe: Optimize kprobe with accurate atomicity guoren
2023-01-28  3:52 ` liaochang (A)
2023-01-28  4:45   ` Guo Ren
2023-01-30 15:28     ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-30 15:49       ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-30 16:56         ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-31  1:48         ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  7:12           ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-31  8:30             ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31 10:33           ` Mark Rutland
2023-02-16 15:23             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-02-20 10:35               ` Mark Rutland
2023-02-21  1:30               ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  1:01       ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  1:09         ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  7:03           ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-31  8:27             ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  6:40         ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-31  8:15           ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31 10:56             ` Andrea Parri [this message]
2023-01-31 13:23               ` Guo Ren
2023-02-16  7:54                 ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-17  2:28                   ` Guo Ren
2023-02-17  7:32                     ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-21  1:56                       ` Guo Ren
2023-02-16 15:42 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-02-21  0:57   ` Guo Ren

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