Re: [PATCH v5] x86/split_lock: fix delayed detection enabling

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Mar 19 2025 - 15:44:08 EST



* Maksim Davydov <davydov-max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On 3/18/25 23:24, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Maksim Davydov <davydov-max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > If the warn mode with disabled mitigation mode is used, then on each
> > > CPU where the split lock occurred detection will be disabled in order to
> > > make progress and delayed work will be scheduled, which then will enable
> > > detection back. Now it turns out that all CPUs use one global delayed
> > > work structure. This leads to the fact that if a split lock occurs on
> > > several CPUs at the same time (within 2 jiffies), only one CPU will
> > > schedule delayed work, but the rest will not. The return value of
> > > schedule_delayed_work_on() would have shown this, but it is not checked
> > > in the code.
> >
> > So we already merged the previous version into the locking tree ~10
> > days ago and it's all in -next already:
> >
> > c929d08df8be ("x86/split_lock: Fix the delayed detection logic")
> >
> > https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=c929d08df8bee855528b9d15b853c892c54e1eee
> >
> > Is there anything new in your -v5 patch, other than undoing all the
> > changelog cleanups I did for the previous version? ;-)
> >
>
> Oh, sorry, I missed it.
> Yes, in v5 initcall is used instead of deferred initialization.
> Either v4 or v5 are good for me. Please be free to choose the more
> convenient variant for you. :-)

Could you please send a delta patch on top of tip:master (or -next)
that implements the initcall approach? Basically -v5, but on top of
-v4.

I merged -v4 because I thought the fix was delayed enough already and
-v4 was functionally fine too, but I won't say no to even better code! :-)

Thanks,

Ingo