Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] x86/split_lock: Handle #AC exception for split lock in kernel mode

[Fenghua Yu]

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