From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/12] x86/mtrr: construct a memory map with cache modes
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 16:24:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230401142419.GCZCg+k9fgFPdAO4c/@fat_crate.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8860c326-3ba5-bd4c-1dab-17772e8fcda0@suse.com>
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 03:23:13PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> In general the critical case is add_map_entry_at() returning 2 (in the
> case it is returning 1, the index can be set to -1, but there is always
> the "continue" statement right after that, which would execute the "i++"
> of the "for" statement).
>
> add_map_entry_at() can return 2 only, if it detects "merge_prev" and
> "merge_next". "merge_prev" can be set only if the current index was > 0,
> which makes it impossible to return 2 if the index was 0.
Yeah, in the meantime I did add some debug printks in order to find my
way around that code...
> How should it be named? AMD TOP_MEM2 MSR?
It is already called that way - see "git grep TOP_MEM2" output.
> The problem isn't an added MTRR register, but a possibly replaced or removed
> one. Handling that is much more complicated, so I've chosen to do it the simple
> way.
Pls put that blurb over the function: needs to be called when MTRRs get
modified so that the map is kept valid, yadda yadda...
> In the end I'd expect setting of MTRRs to be a rare event, so there shouldn't be
> a performance issue with that approach.
Ack.
> Okay, I'll add some more comments.
Thx.
> OTOH, what was hard to write should be hard to read (just kidding).
I'm not kidding - it is not super easy.
:-)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-06 16:34 [PATCH v4 00/12] x86/mtrr: fix handling with PAT but without MTRR Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 01/12] x86/mtrr: split off physical address size calculation Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 02/12] x86/mtrr: optimize mtrr_calc_physbits() Juergen Gross
2023-03-20 12:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 03/12] x86/mtrr: support setting MTRR state for software defined MTRRs Juergen Gross
2023-03-20 12:59 ` Huang, Kai
2023-03-20 13:47 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-20 21:34 ` Huang, Kai
2023-03-20 22:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-21 6:01 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-20 19:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-21 6:00 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-21 10:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-21 15:49 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 04/12] x86/hyperv: set MTRR state when running as SEV-SNP Hyper-V guest Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 05/12] x86/xen: set MTRR state when running as Xen PV initial domain Juergen Gross
2023-03-07 21:47 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2023-03-23 12:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 06/12] x86/mtrr: replace vendor tests in MTRR code Juergen Gross
2023-03-24 16:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-27 5:43 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-27 7:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 07/12] x86/mtrr: allocate mtrr_value array dynamically Juergen Gross
2023-03-20 12:25 ` Huang, Kai
2023-03-20 13:49 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-20 15:31 ` Dave Hansen
2023-03-20 15:49 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-26 22:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-27 5:44 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 08/12] x86/mtrr: add get_effective_type() service function Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 09/12] x86/mtrr: construct a memory map with cache modes Juergen Gross
2023-03-29 12:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-29 13:39 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-31 12:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-31 13:23 ` Juergen Gross
2023-04-01 14:24 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2023-04-03 6:57 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-31 12:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-31 13:35 ` Juergen Gross
2023-04-01 14:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-04-03 7:02 ` Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 10/12] x86/mtrr: use new cache_map in mtrr_type_lookup() Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 11/12] x86/mtrr: don't let mtrr_type_lookup() return MTRR_TYPE_INVALID Juergen Gross
2023-03-06 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 12/12] x86/mm: only check uniform after calling mtrr_type_lookup() Juergen Gross
2023-03-07 21:09 ` [PATCH v4 00/12] x86/mtrr: fix handling with PAT but without MTRR Michael Kelley (LINUX)
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