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Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0

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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 04:14:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > to WARN, they should probably be renamed to describe their new purpose,
> > like:
> > 
> >   "report_bug" -> "report_bug_or_warning"
> >   "fixup_bug"  -> "fixup_bug_or_warning"
> > 
> > On a related note, if warn and bug are going to continue to use two
> > separate ud instructions for the foreseeable future, report_bug() could
> > be cleaned up a bit: e.g., for a ud0 instruction, it doesn't make sense
> > to call find_bug().
> 
> I'm sure you'll break $random arch if you go futz with that. Also, I
> think you mean UD2, since that's BUG. We actually need the bug_entry for
> WARNs (aka UD0).
> 
> Also, you're now optimizing the BUG() code; I don't think anybody cares
> about saving a few cycles there. It shouldn't happen in the first place.

My thinking was to make report_bug() a little less obtuse, but yeah,
that would break other arches, so never mind...

> > > +static int fixup_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (trapnr != X86_TRAP_UD)
> > > +		return 0;
> > > +
> > > +	switch (report_bug(regs->ip, regs)) {
> > > +	case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_NONE:
> > > +	case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG:
> > > +		break;
> > > +
> > > +	case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN:
> > > +		regs->ip += 2;
> > > +		return 1;
> > 
> > For self-documentation purposes, maybe use a define for the length of
> > the ud0 instruction?
> 
> Well, UD0 and UD2 really. LENGTH_UD0_OR_UD2 is a bit of a fail, name
> wise.

Why UD2?  Warnings are UD0-only, no?  What about UD0_LEN?  Or at least a
comment would be helpful I think.

-- 
Josh

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[PATCH 0/5] x86 optimizations Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 22:40 +0100
  [PATCH 3/5] atomic: Introduce atomic_try_cmpxchg() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 22:40 +0100
  [PATCH 5/5] x86,atomic: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 22:40 +0100
  [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-21 15:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-21 16:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-21 16:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-21 16:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-21 17:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-22 09:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-22 15:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4/5] refcount: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 22:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/5] bug: Add _ONCE logic to report_bug() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 22:40 +0100

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