From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 04/15] x86/pks: Preserve the PKRS MSR on context switch
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:09:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200714190945.GD3008823@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200714190539.GG5523@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:05:39PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:53:22AM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:27:01AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:02:09AM -0700, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote:
> > > > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
> > > >
> > > > The PKRS MSR is defined as a per-core register. This isolates memory
> > > > access by CPU. Unfortunately, the MSR is not preserved by XSAVE.
> > > > Therefore, We must preserve the protections for individual tasks even if
> > > > they are context switched out and placed on another cpu later.
> > >
> > > This is a contradiction and utter trainwreck.
> >
> > I don't understand where there is a contradiction? Perhaps I should have said
> > the MSR is not XSAVE managed vs 'preserved'?
>
> You're stating the MSR is per-*CORE*, and then continue to talk about
> per-task state.
>
> We've had a bunch of MSRs have exactly that problem recently, and it's
> not fun. We're not going to do that again.
Ah sorry, my mistake yes I meant 'per-logical-processor' like Dave said. I'll
update the commit message.
Ira
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-14 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-14 7:02 [RFC PATCH 00/15] PKS: Add Protection Keys Supervisor (PKS) support ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 01/15] x86/pkeys: Create pkeys_internal.h ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 02/15] x86/fpu: Refactor arch_set_user_pkey_access() for PKS support ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 03/15] x86/pks: Enable Protection Keys Supervisor (PKS) ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 04/15] x86/pks: Preserve the PKRS MSR on context switch ira.weiny
2020-07-14 8:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 18:53 ` Ira Weiny
2020-07-14 18:56 ` Dave Hansen
2020-07-14 19:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 19:09 ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 05/15] x86/pks: Add PKS kernel API ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 06/15] x86/pks: Add a debugfs file for allocated PKS keys ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 07/15] Documentation/pkeys: Update documentation for kernel pkeys ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 08/15] x86/pks: Add PKS Test code ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 09/15] fs/dax: Remove unused size parameter ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 10/15] drivers/dax: Expand lock scope to cover the use of addresses ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 11/15] memremap: Add zone device access protection ira.weiny
2020-07-14 8:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 19:10 ` Ira Weiny
2020-07-14 19:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 12/15] kmap: Add stray write protection for device pages ira.weiny
2020-07-14 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 19:06 ` Ira Weiny
2020-07-14 19:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 19:42 ` Dave Hansen
2020-07-14 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 20:00 ` Ira Weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 13/15] dax: Stray write protection for dax_direct_access() ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 14/15] nvdimm/pmem: Stray write protection for pmem->virt_addr ira.weiny
2020-07-14 7:02 ` [RFC PATCH 15/15] [dax|pmem]: Enable stray write protection ira.weiny
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