Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2018 18:17:38 -0700 | From | Fenghua Yu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] x86/split_lock: Handle #AC exception for split lock in kernel mode |
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 02:55:08AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2018, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 11:17:03AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Fenghua Yu wrote: > It's not treated as failure. The firmware simply does not have an handler > for #AC installed and dies. I hope you yelled at the firmware people > already.
I think firmware does handle the split lock in its #AC handler because firmware shows the following log and system hangs:
!!!! IA32 Exception Type - 11(#AC - Alignment Check) CPU Apic ID - 00000014! ! ExceptionData - 00000000 EIP - 6A9DB6C3, CS - 00000010, EFLAGS - 00010006 ...
> If that is a real wide spread issue in practice, then we might have to go > for some ugly workarounds, but we won't find out when we add them > upfront. So testing will show what's wrong in firmware land and we can > handle it from there. It's a completely orthogonal issue and has nothing to > do with the core functionality.
Sure
Thanks.
-Fenghua
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