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Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations

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On 08/27/2015 10:25 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:
>> @@ -447,6 +492,14 @@ static void do_extra_xstate_size_checks(
>>  		paranoid_xstate_size += xfeature_size(i);
>>  	}
>>  	XSTATE_WARN_ON(paranoid_xstate_size != xstate_size);
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Basically, make sure that XSTATE_RESERVE has forced
>> +	 * xregs_state to be large enough.  This is not fatal
>> +	 * because we reserve a *lot* of extra room in the init
>> +	 * task struct, but we should at least know we got it
>> +	 * wrong.
>> +	 */
>> +	XSTATE_WARN_ON(xstate_size > sizeof(struct xregs_state));
> 
> So do we need to warn about this? arch_task_struct_size is already dynamic today.

I'm unsure what _actually_ blew up, but I missed adding protection keys
and AVX-512 to XSTATE_RESERVE and the kernel crashed the first time I
did a non-init-state-PKRU XSAVE.

> The only problem would be the init task, which is allocated statically - can we 
> fix that?

We could theoretically make it dynamic, but I'm really not sure it's
worth the trouble.  I just removed the init_task=INIT_TASK()
initialization to see what would happen and something blew up early
(last I saw on the console was the "early console in setup code").

The current size of the non-XSAVE data in task_struct is ~2k.  The xsave
data is 800-something bytes, so say ~1k.  Our init_task ends up being
~6k, 3k of which is wasted.  On an AVX-512 CPU, that means 1k of waste.

From how early things died, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that
we'll need to bootmem alloc our new dynamic init_task and probably can't
practically wait for the slab to show up.  Bootmem can only do full
pages, so our 6k can be trimmed to 4k.  On an AVX-512 CPU, the 6k goes
*up* to 8k.

It doesn't look like a fun exercise for 2k of memory savings.


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[PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 06/11] x86, fpu: rework MPX 'xstate' types Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 04/11] x86, fpu: remove xfeature_nr Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86, fpu: remove xfeature_nr Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:10 +0200
  [PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:00 +0200
  [PATCH 07/11] x86, fpu: rework YMM definition Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size calculations Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size  calculations Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size calculations Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-28 16:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size calculations Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2015-08-28 18:50 +0200
  [PATCH 10/11] x86, fpu: check to ensure increasing-offset xstate offsets Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 08/11] x86, fpu: add C structures for AVX-512 state components Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 08/11] x86, fpu: add C structures for AVX-512 state  components Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:10 +0200
  [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct  declarations Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct  declarations Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-28 18:10 +0200
  [PATCH 05/11] x86, fpu: add helper xfeature_nr_enabled() instead of test_bit() Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 05/11] x86, fpu: add helper xfeature_nr_enabled() instead  of test_bit() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:20 +0200

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