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From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	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 4/9] x86/pks: Preserve the PKRS MSR on context switch
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:48:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201019184849.GC3713473@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201019093714.GI2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:37:14AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:14:10PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > > so it either needs to
> > > explicitly do so, or have an assertion that preemption is indeed
> > > disabled.
> > 
> > However, I don't think I understand clearly.  Doesn't [get|put]_cpu_ptr()
> > handle the preempt_disable() for us? 
> 
> It does.
> 
> > Is it not sufficient to rely on that?
> 
> It is.
> 
> > Dave's comment seems to be the opposite where we need to eliminate preempt
> > disable before calling write_pkrs().
> > 
> > FWIW I think I'm mistaken in my response to Dave regarding the
> > preempt_disable() in pks_update_protection().
> 
> Dave's concern is that we're calling with with preemption already
> disabled so disabling it again is superfluous.

Ok, thanks, and after getting my head straight I think I agree with him, and
you.

Thanks I've reworked the code to removed the superfluous calls.  Sorry about
being so dense...  :-D

Ira


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-19 18:49 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 [this message]
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
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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