Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] x86/split_lock: Handle #AC exception for split lock

From: Fenghua Yu
Date: Fri Jun 29 2018 - 13:17:33 EST


On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 09:33:54AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> + WARN_ONCE(1, "A split lock issue is detected. Please FIX it\n");
> >
> > But, warning here is also not super useful. Shouldn't we be dumping out
> > the info in 'regs' instead of the current context? We don't care about
> > the state in the #AC handler, we care about 'regs'.

But WARN dump not only the state in the #AC handler, but also dump the regs
in the current context. And WARN dumps stack.

>
> Maybe:
>
> WARN_ONCE(1, "split lock detected at %pF\n", regs[EIP]);

Should we dump redundant regs info while WARN shows them all already?

Thanks.

-Fenghua