From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com>
Cc: "tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"frederic@kernel.org" <frederic@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] "Task_isolation" mode
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:49:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200723154933.GB709@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831e023422aa0e4cb3da37ceef6fdcd5bc854682.camel@marvell.com>
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 03:18:42PM +0000, Alex Belits wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 15:17 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > Without going into details of the individual patches, let me give you a
> > high level view of this series:
> >
> > 1) Entry code handling:
> >
> > That's completely broken vs. the careful ordering and instrumentation
> > protection of the entry code. You can't just slap stuff randomly
> > into places which you think are safe w/o actually trying to understand
> > why this code is ordered in the way it is.
> >
> > This clearly was never built and tested with any of the relevant
> > debug options enabled. Both build and boot would have told you.
>
> This is intended to avoid a race condition when entry or exit from isolation
> happens at the same time as an event that requires synchronization. The idea
> is, it is possible to insulate the core from all events while it is running
> isolated task in userspace, it will receive those calls normally after
> breaking isolation and entering kernel, and it will synchronize itself on
> kernel entry.
'What does noinstr mean? and why do we have it" -- don't dare touch the
entry code until you can answer that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-23 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-22 14:44 [PATCH v4 00/13] "Task_isolation" mode Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:47 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] task_isolation: vmstat: add quiet_vmstat_sync function Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:48 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] task_isolation: vmstat: add vmstat_idle function Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:49 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] task_isolation: userspace hard isolation from kernel Alex Belits
2020-10-01 13:56 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-04 14:44 ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
2020-10-04 23:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-05 18:52 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-06 10:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-17 1:13 ` Alex Belits
2020-10-17 1:08 ` Alex Belits
2020-10-17 16:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-17 16:15 ` Alex Belits
2020-10-17 20:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-06 11:01 ` Alex Belits
2020-10-01 14:40 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-04 15:01 ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:51 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] task_isolation: Add task isolation hooks to arch-independent code Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:51 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] task_isolation: Add xen-specific hook Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:53 ` [PATCH 06/13] task_isolation: Add driver-specific hooks Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:54 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] task_isolation: arch/x86: enable task isolation functionality Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:55 ` [PATCH 08/13] task_isolation: arch/arm64: " Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:56 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] task_isolation: arch/arm: " Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:57 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] task_isolation: don't interrupt CPUs with tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu() Alex Belits
2020-10-01 14:44 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-04 15:22 ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
2020-10-06 21:41 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-17 0:17 ` Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:58 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] task_isolation: net: don't flush backlog on CPUs running isolated tasks Alex Belits
2020-10-01 14:47 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-04 17:12 ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
2021-01-22 14:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-22 16:13 ` Paolo Abeni
2020-07-22 14:59 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] task_isolation: ringbuffer: don't interrupt CPUs running isolated tasks on buffer resize Alex Belits
2020-07-22 14:59 ` [PATCH 13/13] task_isolation: kick_all_cpus_sync: don't kick isolated cpus Alex Belits
2020-07-23 13:17 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] "Task_isolation" mode Thomas Gleixner
2020-07-23 14:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-23 14:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-07-23 14:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-23 15:41 ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
2020-07-23 15:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-23 16:19 ` Alex Belits
2020-07-23 15:18 ` Alex Belits
2020-07-23 15:49 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-07-23 16:50 ` Alex Belits
2020-07-23 21:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-07-24 3:00 ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
2020-07-24 16:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-07-23 21:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
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