From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:50:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f55737e-25a2-4cf0-aa07-17102a368ef2@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140301095042.GA16524@pd.tnic>
The bottom line is that if we want hard numbers we probably have to measure.
Hoisting the cr2 read is a no-brainer, might even help performance...
On March 1, 2014 1:50:42 AM PST, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 10:16:50AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>>
>> > > Also, this function is called a _LOT_ under certain workloads, I
>> > > don't know how cheap a CR2 read is, but it had better be really
>> > > cheap.
>> >
>> > That's a HPA question.
>>
>> We read CR2 in the page fault hot path, so it's on the top of CPU
>> architects' minds and it's reasonably optimized. A couple of cycles
>> IIRC, but would be nice to hear actual numbers.
>
>Yeah, we were discussing this last night on IRC.
>
>And hpa actually meant that the optimization potential was there but no
>one did do it, except maybe Transmeta. :-)
>
>So the expensive thing is writing to CR2 because it is a serializing
>instruction. In fact, all writes to control registers except CR8 are
>serializing.
>
>The reading from CR2 should be cheaper but not as cheap as a normal
>MOV %reg %reg is. On AMD, MOV %reg, %cr2 is done with microcode so
>definitely at least a couple of cycles and I'd guess it is not a
>trivial
>MOV on Intel too.
>
>Maybe a way to hide this cost is the OoO, as hpa suggested, depending
>on
>how much parallelism that particular code region can offer (serializing
>instructions close by).
--
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Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-21 20:25 perf_fuzzer causes reboot Vince Weaver
2014-02-21 22:13 ` perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 " Vince Weaver
2014-02-21 22:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-22 4:50 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-22 5:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-22 6:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-23 5:18 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-23 5:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-23 6:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-23 14:05 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 3:02 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 5:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 15:35 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 16:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 16:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 17:10 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 17:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-24 17:32 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 18:00 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 18:07 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 18:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 19:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-24 19:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 19:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-24 19:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-25 3:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-25 14:07 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-25 14:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-25 14:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-25 15:33 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-26 15:06 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-27 22:06 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-27 22:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-27 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 23:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-27 23:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 1:00 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 20:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 20:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 20:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 21:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 21:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 21:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 21:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 22:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 22:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 1:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 2:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 2:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 11:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 13:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 14:15 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 14:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 15:07 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 15:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 15:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 16:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 16:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 19:33 ` [PATCH] x86: Rename copy_from_user_nmi() to copy_from_user_trace() Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 20:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 20:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 20:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 21:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 21:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 20:56 ` perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 21:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-01 9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-03-01 9:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-01 16:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-03-04 23:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-03 9:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 20:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 15:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 15:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 20:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 21:18 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 21:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 23:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-03-01 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-01 3:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-01 16:24 ` Andi Kleen
2014-03-02 15:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-03-02 16:02 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 9:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-24 17:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-24 17:41 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 17:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 15:33 [PATCH] x86 trace: Fix page fault tracing bug Jiri Olsa
2014-02-28 15:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 16:05 ` [PATCHv2] " Jiri Olsa
2014-02-28 16:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 16:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 16:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-05 0:03 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, trace: Fix CR2 corruption when tracing page faults tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2014-03-05 11:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 12:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-05 12:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 12:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-05 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 13:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 13:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 12:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 13:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-05 13:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 21:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-06 8:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-06 11:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-06 14:53 ` [PATCH] x86: Further robustify CR2 handling vs tracing Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-07 23:07 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, trace: " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 15:47 ` [PATCH] x86 trace: Fix page fault tracing bug Jiri Olsa
2014-02-28 16:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 16:01 ` Steven Rostedt
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