Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/bus_lock: Enable bus lock detection

From: peterz
Date: Wed Jul 29 2020 - 16:09:24 EST


On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:00:33PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Why do they need to be exclusive? We've already established that BLD catches
> things that SLD does not. What's wrong with running sld=fatal and bld=ratelimit
> so that split locks never happen and kill applications, and non-WB locks are
> are ratelimited?

It's all moot until there's a sane proposal for #DB that isn't utterly
wrecked.