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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing/x86: Save CR2 before tracing irqsoff on error_entry
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:54:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <176dee6b-983b-c5ca-b212-7cba216f0879@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whSeiDXVvhie_bBPqDw99JNJMdTuX8ef82BhNanyo7zRw@mail.gmail.com>

On 21/03/2019 19:18, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:05 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>
>> In the long run, I think the right solution is to rewrite even more of
>> this mess in C.  We really ought to be able to put the IRQ flag
>> tracing and the context tracking into C code.
> 
> Tangentially about this long run thing - can we start discussing just
> dropping PV mode entirely in the long run? Or even not-so-long run?

As Andrew already said: the work is ongoing, but hard.

What I'm planning to do, however, is dropping 32-bit PV code from the
kernel not too far in the future. This is only a small step, but it is
a move in the right direction.


Juergen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-22  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-21  2:15 [RFC][PATCH] tracing/x86: Save CR2 before tracing irqsoff on error_entry Steven Rostedt
2019-03-21  8:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21  9:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 10:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 13:32       ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-21 13:55         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-21 17:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-21 17:22         ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 18:05           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-21 18:10             ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-21 18:27               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-21 20:50                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-22  2:52                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-21 18:28               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 18:55                 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-21 19:31                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 19:50                     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-21 20:03                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 20:11                         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-21 18:18             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-21 18:20               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-21 18:25                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-21 18:37                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 18:39                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-21 20:00                       ` Andrew Cooper
2019-03-21 20:35                         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-21 18:38                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-21 18:42                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 18:22               ` hpa
2019-03-22  5:54               ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2019-03-21 18:27             ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 18:28               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-21 18:33                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 13:04   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-17  1:52 ` He Zhe

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