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From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
To: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com, jpoimboe@redhat.com,
	namit@vmware.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, bp@alien8.de,
	vkuznets@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, mihai.carabas@oracle.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/26] Runtime paravirt patching
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 02:32:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37d755a7-8fc9-8cc8-5627-027a8479b6c7@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7f8bff3-526a-6a84-2e81-677cfbac0111@suse.com>

On 2020-04-08 5:28 a.m., Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 08.04.20 07:02, Ankur Arora wrote:
[ snip ]
> 
> Quite a lot of code churn and hacks for a problem which should not
> occur on a well administrated machine.
Yeah, I agree the patch set is pretty large and clearly the NMI or
the stop_machine() are completely out. That said, as I wrote in my
other mail I think the problem is still worth solving.

> Especially the NMI dependencies make me not wanting to Ack this series.
The NMI solution did turn out to be pretty ugly.

I was using it to solve two problems: avoid a deadlock where an NMI handler
could use a lock while the stop_machine() thread is trying to rewrite the
corresponding call-sites. And, needed to ensure that we don't lock
and unlock using mismatched primitives.


Thanks
Ankur

> 
> 
> Juergen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-10  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-08  5:02 [RFC PATCH 00/26] Runtime paravirt patching Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:02 ` [RFC PATCH 01/26] x86/paravirt: Specify subsection in PVOP macros Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:02 ` [RFC PATCH 02/26] x86/paravirt: Allow paravirt patching post-init Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 03/26] x86/paravirt: PVRTOP macros for PARAVIRT_RUNTIME Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 04/26] x86/alternatives: Refactor alternatives_smp_module* Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 05/26] x86/alternatives: Rename alternatives_smp*, smp_alt_module Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 06/26] x86/alternatives: Remove stale symbols Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 07/26] x86/paravirt: Persist .parainstructions.runtime Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 08/26] x86/paravirt: Stash native pv-ops Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 09/26] x86/paravirt: Add runtime_patch() Ankur Arora
2020-04-08 11:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 10/26] x86/paravirt: Add primitives to stage pv-ops Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 11/26] x86/alternatives: Remove return value of text_poke*() Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 12/26] x86/alternatives: Use __get_unlocked_pte() in text_poke() Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 13/26] x86/alternatives: Split __text_poke() Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 14/26] x86/alternatives: Handle native insns in text_poke_loc*() Ankur Arora
2020-04-08 11:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 11:17   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 15/26] x86/alternatives: Non-emulated text poking Ankur Arora
2020-04-08 11:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 11:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 16/26] x86/alternatives: Add paravirt patching at runtime Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 17/26] x86/alternatives: Add patching logic in text_poke_site() Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 18/26] x86/alternatives: Handle BP in non-emulated text poking Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 19/26] x86/alternatives: NMI safe runtime patching Ankur Arora
2020-04-08 11:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 20/26] x86/paravirt: Enable pv-spinlocks in runtime_patch() Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 21/26] x86/alternatives: Paravirt runtime selftest Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 22/26] kvm/paravirt: Encapsulate KVM pv switching logic Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 23/26] x86/kvm: Add worker to trigger runtime patching Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 24/26] x86/kvm: Support dynamic CPUID hints Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 25/26] x86/kvm: Guest support for dynamic hints Ankur Arora
2020-04-08  5:03 ` [RFC PATCH 26/26] x86/kvm: Add hint change notifier for KVM_HINT_REALTIME Ankur Arora
2020-04-08 12:08 ` [RFC PATCH 00/26] Runtime paravirt patching Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 13:33   ` Jürgen Groß
2020-04-08 14:49     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-10  9:18   ` Ankur Arora
2020-04-08 12:28 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-04-10  7:56   ` Ankur Arora
2020-04-10  9:32   ` Ankur Arora [this message]
2020-04-08 14:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-04-10  9:55   ` Ankur Arora

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