From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Sebastian Andrzej Siewior' <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm/pat: Disable preemption around __flush_tlb_all()
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:45:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <903c4734c77f4fbaba8598bc2effaf78@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181017103926.okjwwinlsyegyrhu@linutronix.de>
From: 'Sebastian Andrzej Siewior'
> Sent: 17 October 2018 11:39
> On 2018-10-17 09:54:38 [+0000], David Laight wrote:
> > Can it make any sense to flush the tlb with preemption enabled?
> it might. Usually it is disabled for other reasons.
That's what I mean, it should be disabled by the caller.
> > Surely preemption must be disabled over something else as well?
> In this case it is due to the CR3 reload. I don't see anything else.
Right, so it should be disabled before the CR3 reload and enabled after?
David
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-16 20:25 [0/3] A few 32bit x86 fixes Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-16 20:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm/pat: Disable preemption around __flush_tlb_all() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-16 21:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-16 21:38 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-16 23:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-17 10:34 ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-29 18:10 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-11-05 21:56 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-17 9:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] " David Laight
2018-10-17 10:39 ` 'Sebastian Andrzej Siewior'
2018-10-17 11:45 ` David Laight [this message]
2018-10-17 12:00 ` 'Sebastian Andrzej Siewior'
2018-10-17 11:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-17 11:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-17 15:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-17 15:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-17 16:00 ` 'Sebastian Andrzej Siewior'
2018-10-17 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-16 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/fpu: Remove second definition of fpu in __fpu__restore_sig() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-16 21:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-17 9:09 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-18 6:22 ` tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-16 20:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/fpu: Save FPU registers on context switch if there is a FPU Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-16 23:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-17 9:10 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/fpu: Fix i486 + no387 boot crash by only saving FPU registers on context switch if there is an FPU tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-18 6:22 ` tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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