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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 6/7] x86/alternatives: use temporary mm for text poking
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From: Peter Zijlstra
Sent: November 5, 2018 at 1:30:41 PM GMT
> To: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] x86/alternatives: use temporary mm for text poking
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:29:45PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> + unuse_temporary_mm(prev);
>> +
>> + pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
>
> That; that does kunmap_atomic() on 32bit.
>
> I've been thinking that the whole kmap_atomic thing on x86_32 is
> terminally broken, and with that most of x86_32 is.
>
> kmap_atomic does the per-cpu fixmap pte fun-and-games we're here saying
> is broken. Yes, only the one CPU will (explicitly) use those fixmap PTEs
> and thus the local invalidate _should_ work. However nothing prohibits
> speculation on another CPU from using our fixmap addresses. Which can
> lead to the remote CPU populating its TLBs for our fixmap entry.
>
> And, as we've found, there are AMD parts that #MC when there are
> mis-matched TLB entries.
>
> So what do we do? mark x86_32 SMP broken?

pte_unmap() seems to only use kunmap_atomic() when CONFIG_HIGHPTE is set, no?

Do most distributions run with CONFIG_HIGHPTE?

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