From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/12] x86/mce: Correct the noinstr annotation
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 13:19:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbH0acLmGq6PUMbJ@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211208111343.8130-1-bp@alien8.de>
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 12:13:31PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> here's v1 with the instrumentation "sandwiching" documented, as
> requested by peterz.
>
> Tony, I'd appreciate making sure nothing in them breaks your injection
> workflows before I queue them. And it shouldn't but... :-)
>
> Thx.
>
> Changelog:
> ==========
>
> here's a first preliminary (it is based on some random 5.16-rc0 commit
> and is tested only in qemu) of the series which correct all the noinstr
> annotation of the #MC handler.
>
> Since it calls a bunch of external facilities, the strategy is to mark
> mce-specific functions called by the #MC handler as noinstr and when
> they "call out" so to speak, to do a begin/end sandwich around that
> call.
>
Looked ok. I think some of the comments can be improved to clarify the
noinstr usage in MCE in general, but that's about it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-09 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-08 11:13 [PATCH v1 00/12] x86/mce: Correct the noinstr annotation Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 01/12] x86/mce: Do not use memset to clear the banks bitmaps Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 02/12] x86/mce: Remove function-local cpus variables Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 03/12] x86/mce: Use mce_rdmsrl() in severity checking code Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 04/12] x86/mce: Remove noinstr annotation from mce_setup() Borislav Petkov
2021-12-09 12:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-12-10 14:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 05/12] x86/mce: Allow instrumentation during task work queueing Borislav Petkov
2021-12-09 12:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 06/12] x86/mce: Prevent severity computation from being instrumented Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 07/12] x86/mce: Mark mce_panic() noinstr Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 08/12] x86/mce: Mark mce_end() noinstr Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 09/12] x86/mce: Mark mce_read_aux() noinstr Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 10/12] x86/mce: Move the tainting outside of the noinstr region Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 11/12] x86/mce: Mark mce_timed_out() noinstr Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-08 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 12/12] x86/mce: Mark mce_start() noinstr Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 17:35 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-12-09 12:19 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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