Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86/traps: Demand-populate PASID MSR via #GP

[Fenghua Yu]

Hi, Tony,

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:06:52PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> 	fpregs_lock();
> >
> > I'm afraid we may hit the same locking issue when we send IPI to notify another task to modify its
> > PASID state. Here the API is called to modify another running task's PASID state as well without a right lock.
> > fpregs_lock() is not enough to deal with this, I'm afraid.
> 
> We don't send IPI any more to change PASID state. The only place that the
> current patch series touches the PASID MSR is in the #GP fault handler.

It's safe for the helpers to handle the PASID case (modifying the current task's
PASID state in #GP).

But the helpers seem to be generic. They take "task" as a parameter and
handle the task as non-current case. So the helpers are not for PASID only.
They may be used by others to modify a running task's FPU state. But
It's not safe to do so.

At least need some comments/restriction for the helpers to be used on
a running task?

Thanks.

-Fenghua