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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 01/29] mm: asi: Make some utility functions noinstr compatible
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:02:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250116140258.GDZ4kRkvEGYovA_J5u@fat_crate.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+i-1C1sXC1tbo9ytuex0eBD3gUbQwnNP8rvOhCv=JV+oSHo1g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 02:22:42PM +0100, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> Sure. I'm actually not even sure that for a [PATCH]-quality thing this
> cross-cutting commit even makes sense - once we've decided on the
> general way to solve this problem, perhaps the changes should just be
> part of the commit that needs them?

Right, that sounds better.

> It feels messy to have a patch that "does multiple things", but on the
> other hand it might be annoying to review a patch that says "make a
> load of random changes across the kernel, which are needed at various
> points in various upcoming patches, trust me".
> 
> Do you have any opinion on that?

You're absolutely right - we do things when we need them and not before.
Otherwise, often times things get done preemptively and then forgotten only
for someone to notice way later and undo them again.

> (BTW, since a comment you made on another series (can't find it on
> Lore...), I've changed my writing style to avoid stuff like this in
> comments & commit messages in general, but this text all predates
> that. I'll do my best to sort all that stuff out before I send
> anything as a [PATCH].)

Thanks!

Btw, good and funny way to use "[PATCH]-quality" to mean non-RFC. :-P

> Oh, I didn't notice your update until now. But yeah I also couldn't
> reproduce it on a Sapphire Rapids machine and on QEMU with this patch
> applied on top of tip/master (37bc915c6ad0f).

Yeah, it feels like toolchain-related but I can't put my finger on it yet.
We'll see if and when this thing will re-surface its ugly head...

:-)

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette


  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-16 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-10 18:40 [PATCH RFC v2 00/29] Address Space Isolation (ASI) Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 01/29] mm: asi: Make some utility functions noinstr compatible Brendan Jackman
2025-01-16  0:18   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-01-16 10:27     ` Borislav Petkov
2025-01-16 13:22       ` Brendan Jackman
2025-01-16 14:02         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 02/29] x86: Create CONFIG_MITIGATION_ADDRESS_SPACE_ISOLATION Brendan Jackman
2025-01-16 16:43   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-03-01  7:23   ` Mike Rapoport
2025-03-05 13:12     ` Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 03/29] mm: asi: Introduce ASI core API Brendan Jackman
2025-02-19 10:55   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-19 13:50     ` Brendan Jackman
2025-02-19 13:53     ` Brendan Jackman
2025-02-27 12:06       ` Borislav Petkov
2025-02-28  8:43         ` Brendan Jackman
2025-03-14 13:14           ` Borislav Petkov
2025-03-15  1:34             ` Junaid Shahid
2025-03-15 12:36               ` Borislav Petkov
2025-03-17 11:40                 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-03-18  0:50                   ` Junaid Shahid
2025-03-18 13:03                     ` Brendan Jackman
2025-03-18 22:48                       ` Junaid Shahid
2025-03-19 15:23                         ` Borislav Petkov
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 04/29] mm: asi: Add infrastructure for boot-time enablement Brendan Jackman
2025-03-19 17:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-03-19 18:47     ` Yosry Ahmed
2025-03-20 10:44       ` Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 05/29] mm: asi: ASI support in interrupts/exceptions Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 06/29] mm: asi: Use separate PCIDs for restricted address spaces Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 07/29] mm: asi: Make __get_current_cr3_fast() ASI-aware Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 08/29] mm: asi: Avoid warning from NMI userspace accesses in ASI context Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 09/29] mm: asi: ASI page table allocation functions Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 10/29] mm: asi: asi_exit() on PF, skip handling if address is accessible Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 11/29] mm: asi: Functions to map/unmap a memory range into ASI page tables Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 12/29] mm: asi: Add basic infrastructure for global non-sensitive mappings Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 13/29] mm: Add __PAGEFLAG_FALSE Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 14/29] mm: asi: Map non-user buddy allocations as nonsensitive Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH TEMP WORKAROUND RFC v2 15/29] mm: asi: Workaround missing partial-unmap support Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 16/29] mm: asi: Map kernel text and static data as nonsensitive Brendan Jackman
2025-01-17 11:23   ` Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 17/29] mm: asi: Map vmalloc/vmap " Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 18/29] mm: asi: Map dynamic percpu memory " Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 19/29] mm: asi: Stabilize CR3 in switch_mm_irqs_off() Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 20/29] mm: asi: Make TLB flushing correct under ASI Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 21/29] KVM: x86: asi: Restricted address space for VM execution Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 22/29] mm: asi: exit ASI before accessing CR3 from C code where appropriate Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 23/29] mm: asi: exit ASI before suspend-like operations Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 24/29] mm: asi: Add infrastructure for mapping userspace addresses Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 25/29] mm: asi: Restricted execution fore bare-metal processes Brendan Jackman
2025-02-28 15:32   ` Yosry Ahmed
2025-03-20 15:55   ` Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 26/29] x86: Create library for flushing L1D for L1TF Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 27/29] mm: asi: Add some mitigations on address space transitions Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 28/29] x86/pti: Disable PTI when ASI is on Brendan Jackman
2025-01-10 18:40 ` [PATCH RFC v2 29/29] mm: asi: Stop ignoring asi=on cmdline flag Brendan Jackman

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