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Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:51:25 +0000 Received: from pps.filterd (aserp3020.oracle.com [127.0.0.1]) by aserp3020.oracle.com (8.16.0.27/8.16.0.27) with SMTP id x6CClhL5192025; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:51:24 GMT Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by aserp3020.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2tpefd2wwt-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:51:24 +0000 Received: from abhmp0003.oracle.com (abhmp0003.oracle.com [141.146.116.9]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id x6CCpLW1010069; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:51:21 GMT Received: from [10.166.106.34] (/10.166.106.34) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 05:47:27 -0700 Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/27] Kernel Address Space Isolation To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, jan.setjeeilers@oracle.com, liran.alon@oracle.com, jwadams@google.com, graf@amazon.de, rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Paul Turner References: <1562855138-19507-1-git-send-email-alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> <20190712114458.GU3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1f97f1d9-d209-f2ab-406d-fac765006f91@oracle.com> <20190712123653.GO3419@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> From: Alexandre Chartre Organization: Oracle Corporation Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:47:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190712123653.GO3419@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9315 signatures=668688 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1907120139 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9315 signatures=668688 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1907120140 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org On 7/12/19 2:36 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 02:17:20PM +0200, Alexandre Chartre wrote: >> On 7/12/19 1:44 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >>> AFAIK3 this wants/needs to be combined with core-scheduling to be >>> useful, but not a single mention of that is anywhere. >> >> No. This is actually an alternative to core-scheduling. Eventually, ASI >> will kick all sibling hyperthreads when exiting isolation and it needs to >> run with the full kernel page-table (note that's currently not in these >> patches). >> >> So ASI can be seen as an optimization to disabling hyperthreading: instead >> of just disabling hyperthreading you run with ASI, and when ASI can't preserve >> isolation you will basically run with a single thread. > > You can't do that without much of the scheduler changes present in the > core-scheduling patches. > We hope we can do that without the whole core-scheduling mechanism. The idea is to send an IPI to all sibling hyperthreads. This IPI will interrupt these sibling hyperthreads and have them wait for a condition that will allow them to resume execution (for example when re-entering isolation). We are investigating this in parallel to ASI. alex.