Re: [PATCH v10 07/14] unwind_user/deferred: Make unwind deferral requests NMI-safe
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2025-06-19 09:42:44
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2025-06-19 09:42:44
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On June 19, 2025 5:32:26 AM EDT, Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 05:07:10AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:quoted
Does #DB make in_nmi() true? If that's the case then we do need to handle that.Yes: #DF, #MC, #BP (int3), #DB and NMI all have in_nmi() true. Ignoring #DF because that's mostly game over, you can get them all nested for up to 4 (you're well aware of the normal NMI recursion crap).
We probably can implement this with stacked counters.
Then there is the SEV #VC stuff, which is also NMI like. So if you're a CoCo-nut, you can perhaps get it up to 5.
The rest of the tracing infrastructure goes 4 deep and hasn't had issues, so 4 is probably sufficient. -- Steve