From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, robert@swiecki.net,
luto@amacapital.net, mingo@kernel.org, hughd@google.com,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:50:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180114105003.GA30927@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180114102713.GB6166@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 11:27:13AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> The intel_bts driver does not use the 'normal' BTS buffer we allocated
> space for in the cpu_entry_area but instead uses the memory allocated
> for the perf AUX buffer.
>
> This obviously comes apart when using PTI because then the kernel
> mapping; which includes that AUX buffer memory; disappears.
>
> For now disable this driver when PTI is enabled, we'll try and sort
> something out later.
>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
> Reported-by: Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Can you add a:
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
please?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-14 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-14 10:27 [PATCH] x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-14 10:46 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-14 10:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-01-14 10:52 ` [PATCH] " Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-14 12:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-14 13:27 ` Greg KH
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