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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>,
	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: [PATCH RFC V3 5/9] x86/pks: Add PKS kernel API
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:42:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201017054216.GB3702775@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201016110747.GM2611@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 01:07:47PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:42:54PM -0700, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote:
> > +static inline void pks_update_protection(int pkey, unsigned long protection)
> > +{
> > +	current->thread.saved_pkrs = update_pkey_val(current->thread.saved_pkrs,
> > +						     pkey, protection);
> > +	preempt_disable();
> > +	write_pkrs(current->thread.saved_pkrs);
> > +	preempt_enable();
> > +}
> 
> write_pkrs() already disables preemption itself. Wrapping it in yet
> another layer is useless.

I was thinking the update to saved_pkrs needed this protection as well and that
was to be included in the preemption disable.  But that too is incorrect.

I've removed this preemption disable.

Thanks,
Ira

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-17  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-09 19:42 [PATCH RFC V3 0/9] PKS: Add Protection Keys Supervisor (PKS) support RFC v3 ira.weiny
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 1/9] x86/pkeys: Create pkeys_common.h ira.weiny
2020-10-13 17:46   ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-13 19:44     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 2/9] x86/fpu: Refactor arch_set_user_pkey_access() for PKS support ira.weiny
2020-10-13 17:50   ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-13 23:56     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-16 10:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-17  3:32     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-19  9:35       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 3/9] x86/pks: Enable Protection Keys Supervisor (PKS) ira.weiny
2020-10-13 18:23   ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-14  2:08     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 4/9] x86/pks: Preserve the PKRS MSR on context switch ira.weiny
2020-10-13 18:31   ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-14 22:36     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-16 11:12     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-17  5:14       ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-19  9:37         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-19 18:48           ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-16 11:06   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-17  5:37     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 5/9] x86/pks: Add PKS kernel API ira.weiny
2020-10-13 18:43   ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-15  1:08     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-16 11:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-17  5:42     ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 6/9] x86/entry: Pass irqentry_state_t by reference ira.weiny
2020-10-16 11:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-16 12:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-19  5:37       ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-19  9:32         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-19 20:26           ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-19 21:12             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-20 14:10               ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 7/9] x86/entry: Preserve PKRS MSR across exceptions ira.weiny
2020-10-13 18:52   ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-15  3:46     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-15  4:06       ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-15  4:18         ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 8/9] x86/fault: Report the PKRS state on fault ira.weiny
2020-10-13 18:56   ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-15  4:13     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-09 19:42 ` [PATCH RFC V3 9/9] x86/pks: Add PKS test code ira.weiny
2020-10-13 19:02   ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-15  4:46     ` Ira Weiny
2020-10-09 20:18 ` [PATCH RFC V3 0/9] PKS: Add Protection Keys Supervisor (PKS) support RFC v3 Ira Weiny

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