Newer CPUs provide a second mechanism to detect operations with lock
prefix which go accross a cache line boundary. Such operations have to
take bus lock which causes a system wide performance degradation when
these operations happen frequently.
The new mechanism is not using the #AC exception. It triggers #DB and is
restricted to operations in user space. Kernel side split lock access can
only be detected by the #AC based variant. Contrary to the #AC based
mechanism the #DB based variant triggers _after_ the instruction was
executed. The mechanism is CPUID enumerated and contrary to the #AC
version which is based on the magic TEST_CTRL_MSR and model/family based
enumeration on the way to become architectural.
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Merge tag 'x86-splitlock-2021-04-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 bus lock detection updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Support for enhanced split lock detection:
Newer CPUs provide a second mechanism to detect operations with lock
prefix which go accross a cache line boundary. Such operations have to
take bus lock which causes a system wide performance degradation when
these operations happen frequently.
The new mechanism is not using the #AC exception. It triggers #DB and
is restricted to operations in user space. Kernel side split lock
access can only be detected by the #AC based variant.
Contrary to the #AC based mechanism the #DB based variant triggers
_after_ the instruction was executed. The mechanism is CPUID
enumerated and contrary to the #AC version which is based on the magic
TEST_CTRL_MSR and model/family based enumeration on the way to become
architectural"
* tag 'x86-splitlock-2021-04-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation/admin-guide: Change doc for split_lock_detect parameter
x86/traps: Handle #DB for bus lock
x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate #DB for bus lock detection
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