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.
Documentation/admin-guide: Change doc for split_lock_detect parameter
Since #DB for bus lock detect changes the split_lock_detect parameter,
update the documentation for the changes.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322135325.682257-4-fenghua.yu@intel.com
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