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From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, kim.phillips@amd.com,
	piotrgorski@cachyos.org, oleksandr@natalenko.name,
	arjan@linux.intel.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, paulmck@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	rcu@vger.kernel.org, mimoja@mimoja.de, hewenliang4@huawei.com,
	thomas.lendacky@amd.com, seanjc@google.com,
	pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de, fam.zheng@bytedance.com,
	punit.agrawal@bytedance.com, simon.evans@bytedance.com,
	liangma@liangbit.com, gpiccoli@igalia.com,
	Sabin Rapan <sabrapan@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 8/8] x86/smpboot: Allow parallel bringup for SEV-ES
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:23:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMzpN2guz4HTQ8uir9Q=xrUpCYyBfuG2zGSJsakaqY7_OvxCPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dbdd277c4b26ae4b971a910209a3279f79f6837.camel@infradead.org>

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 5:04 AM David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2023-03-23 at 09:51 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 08:32:49AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > and maybe find some other stuff to cargo-cult to make it safe to run
> > > C code that early...
> >
> > I'm trying to have less shit asm, not more if possible. We've been
> > aiming to convert stuff to C for years.
>
> Absolutely, I understand. There are a few hoops we have to jump through
> to be able to run C code this early, but it's worth it.
>
> > WTF are you calling cargo-cult?
>
> Off the top of my head, I don't actually *remember* all the hoops we
> have to jump through to run C code this early.

Making sure that the stack protector is either disabled or properly
set up, and disabling any instrumentation/profiling/debug crap that
isn't initialized yet.

--
Brian Gerst

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-23 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-21 19:40 [PATCH v16 0/8] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64 Usama Arif
2023-03-21 19:40 ` [PATCH v16 1/8] cpu/hotplug: Move idle_thread_get() to <linux/smpboot.h> Usama Arif
2023-03-21 19:40 ` [PATCH v16 2/8] cpu/hotplug: Reset task stack state in _cpu_up() Usama Arif
2023-03-22 11:06   ` Mark Rutland
2023-03-21 19:40 ` [PATCH v16 3/8] cpu/hotplug: Add dynamic parallel bringup states before CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU Usama Arif
2023-03-23 22:36   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-03-23 22:49     ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-23 23:48       ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-03-24  0:06         ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-23 23:05     ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-03-23 23:12       ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-24  1:16         ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-03-24  9:31           ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-24 13:57             ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-03-24 15:33               ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-24 14:07             ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-03-24  9:46           ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-03-24 10:00             ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-27 18:48       ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-21 19:40 ` [PATCH v16 4/8] x86/smpboot: Split up native_cpu_up into separate phases and document them Usama Arif
2023-03-21 19:40 ` [PATCH v16 5/8] x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs Usama Arif
2023-03-21 19:40 ` [PATCH v16 6/8] x86/smpboot: Send INIT/SIPI/SIPI to secondary CPUs in parallel Usama Arif
2023-03-21 19:40 ` [PATCH v16 7/8] x86/smpboot: Serialize topology updates for secondary bringup Usama Arif
2023-03-21 19:40 ` [PATCH v16 8/8] x86/smpboot: Allow parallel bringup for SEV-ES Usama Arif
2023-03-22 22:47   ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-23  8:32     ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-23  8:51       ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-23  9:04         ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-23 14:23           ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2023-03-27 17:47             ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-27 18:14               ` David Woodhouse
2023-03-27 19:14                 ` Tom Lendacky
2023-03-27 19:32                 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-23 13:16     ` Tom Lendacky
     [not found]       ` <751f572f940220775054dc09324b20b929d7d66d.camel@amazon.co.uk>
2023-03-23 18:28         ` Tom Lendacky
2023-03-23 22:13           ` Borislav Petkov
2023-03-23 22:30             ` [EXTERNAL][PATCH " David Woodhouse

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