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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Fix native_load_gs_index() SWAPGS handling with IRQ state tracing enabled
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:08:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171129180817.w7xjlvg5azdbvtbg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXwM7syieKz8CcFE8qHL6r_yA0jP49A1EJsw5UNWz+UNA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:57:43AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

> > On a related note, we should definitely extend the 'intended GS state' annotation
> > comments I did in this patch to all SWAPGS instances - this way code review has a
> > much higher chance of finding discrepancies between intent and actual code.
> 
> Agreed.  I'll send a patch.

Alternatively we could do something like:

  SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_GS
  SWITCH_TO_USER_GS

and have them do the SWAPGS with an (optional) assertion of the actual
GS.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-29 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-28 14:35 Suspend-to-ram/resume regression with commit ca37e57bbe0c Jarkko Nikula
2017-11-29  7:09 ` [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Fix native_load_gs_index() SWAPGS handling with IRQ state tracing enabled Ingo Molnar
2017-11-29  9:25   ` Jarkko Nikula
2017-11-29  9:28     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-29 12:39       ` Jarkko Nikula
2017-11-29 12:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-29 14:33     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-29 14:56       ` David Laight
2017-11-29 16:22         ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-29 16:51           ` David Laight
2017-11-29 20:48             ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-29 16:51           ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-29 17:57   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-29 18:08     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-11-29 18:12     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-29 20:58       ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-29 21:25         ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-29 21:41           ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-29 21:57             ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-30  8:42       ` Jarkko Nikula

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