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From:   Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 6/6] x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 09:23:45PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 06:02:04PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > it requires we get the kernel and firmware clean, but only warns about
> > > dodgy userspace, which I really don't think there is much of.
> > >
> > > getting the kernel clean should be pretty simple.
> > 
> > Fenghua has a half dozen additional patches (I think they were
> > all posted in previous iterations of the patch) that were found by
> > code inspection, rather than by actually hitting them.
> 
> I thought we merged at least some of that, but maybe my recollection is
> faulty.

At least 2 key fixes are in TIP tree:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/157384597983.12247.8995835529288193538.tip-bot2@tip-bot2/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/157384597947.12247.7200239597382357556.tip-bot2@tip-bot2/

The two issues are blocking kernel boot when split lock is enabled.

> 
> > Those should go in ahead of this.
> 
> Yes, we should make the kernel as clean as possible before doing this.

I'll send out other 6 fixes for atomic bitops shortly. These issues are found
by code inspection.

Thanks.

-Fenghua