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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
To: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	sean.j.christopherson@intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2.1] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:17:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACdnJuvfhjMNQUYNYWpPMfwTE3xHi7UNPm7HEwUMv_1F3KT4gA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200714160448.GC2080@chrisdown.name>

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 9:04 AM Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> wrote:
> Either way, again, this isn't really the point. :-) The point is that there
> _are_ currently widespread cases involving poking MSRs from userspace, however
> sacrilegious or ugly (which I agree with!), and while people should be told
> about that, it's excessive to have the potential to take up 80% of kmsg in the
> default configuration. It doesn't take thousands of messages to get the message
> across, that's what a custom printk ratelimit is for.

Agreed - we should now offer all the necessary interfaces to avoid
userspace having to hit MSRs directly for thermal management, but that
wasn't always the case, and as a result there's tooling that still
behaves this way.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-14 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-12 10:50 [RFC PATCH] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes Borislav Petkov
2020-06-12 16:34 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-12 16:46   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-12 16:57     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-12 17:03       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-12 17:43         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-12 17:52           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-12 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-12 17:48   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-12 19:47     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-12 20:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-13  5:40       ` Tony Luck
2020-06-13  9:39       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-13 15:48 ` [PATCH -v2] " Borislav Petkov
2020-06-15  6:38   ` [PATCH -v2.1] " Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25  5:51     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-25  8:37       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-07-14 12:19     ` Chris Down
2020-07-14 15:47       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-07-14 16:04         ` Chris Down
2020-07-14 16:46           ` Luck, Tony
2020-07-14 16:58             ` Borislav Petkov
2020-07-14 17:02             ` Chris Down
2020-07-14 16:56           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-07-14 17:04             ` Chris Down
2020-07-14 18:52             ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2020-07-15  4:26               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-07-14 19:17           ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2020-11-17 21:00             ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2020-11-17 21:20               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-11-18  8:58                 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2020-11-18  9:09                 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2020-11-18 11:50                   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-11-18 14:04                     ` [PATCH] " Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2020-11-18 17:50                       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-11-19 10:53                         ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2020-11-25 21:41                           ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2020-11-26 10:03                           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-11-17 21:21               ` [PATCH -v2.1] " Matthew Garrett
2020-11-17 21:22                 ` Matthew Garrett
2020-11-18  9:02                   ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2020-06-17 15:06 ` [tip: x86/misc] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25  8:45 ` tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov

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