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In https://lore.kernel.org/all/87y22uujkm.ffs@tglx/ Thomas said: Its's simply wishful thinking that stuff gets fixed because of a WARN_ONCE(). This has never worked. The only thing which works is to make stuff fail hard or slow it down in a way which makes it annoying enough to users to complain. He was talking about WBINVD. But it made me think about how we use the split lock detection feature in Linux. Existing code has three options for applications: 1) Don't enable split lock detection (allow arbitrary split locks) 2) Warn once when a process uses split lock, but let the process keep running with split lock detection disabled 3) Kill process that use split locks Option 2 falls into the "wishful thinking" territory that Thomas warns does nothing. But option 3 might not be viable in a situation with legacy applications that need to run. Hence make option 2 much stricter to "slow it down in a way which makes it annoying". Primary reason for this change is to provide better quality of service to the rest of the applications running on the system. Internal testing shows that even with many processes splitting locks, performance for the rest of the system is much more responsive. The new "warn" mode operates like this. When an application tries to execute a bus lock the #AC handler. 1) Delays (interruptibly) 10 ms before moving to next step. 2) Blocks (interruptibly) until it can get the semaphore If interrupted, just return. Assume the signal will either kill the task, or direct execution away from the instruction that is trying to get the bus lock. 3) Disables split lock detection for the current core 4) Schedules a work queue to re-enable split lock detect in 2 jiffies 5) Returns The work queue that re-enables split lock detection also releases the semaphore. There is a corner case where a CPU may be taken offline while split lock detection is disabled. A CPU hotplug handler handles this case. Old behaviour was to only print the split lock warning on the first occurrence of a split lock from a task. Preserve that by adding a flag to the task structure that suppresses subsequent split lock messages from that task. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310204854.31752-2-tony.luck@intel.com |
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Linux kernel
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