Re: [PATCH v3] x86,mm: print likely CPU at segfault time

Ira Weiny
2022-08-05T17:09:34Z

On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 04:27:40PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 10:16:44AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > index fad8faa29d04..c7a5bbf40367 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > @@ -769,6 +769,8 @@ show_signal_msg(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> > unsigned long address, struct task_struct *tsk)
> > {
> > const char *loglvl = task_pid_nr(tsk) > 1 ? KERN_INFO : KERN_EMERG;
> > + /* This is a racy snapshot, but it's better than nothing. */
> > + int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
>
> Please read this in exc_page_fault() and hand it down to helpers.
>
> Alternatively, I'm being told there's a patchset in the works which
> will allow for any exception handler to pass in additional information
> downwards through an extended pt_regs. Then, saving the CPU number on
> which the handler is running would work generically everywhere.

Indeed that was part of the PKS series.[1]

I've thrown together a quick RFC with the relevant patches from that series and
Rik's code in show_signal_msg().

I'll post it shortly,
Ira

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220419170649.1022246-18-ira.weiny@intel.com/

>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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