On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 08:07:57PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > > +static void init_split_lock_detect(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) > > +{ > > + if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT)) { > > + u32 l, h; > > + > > + mutex_lock(&split_lock_detect_mutex); > > + rdmsr(MSR_TEST_CTL, l, h); > > + l = new_sp_test_ctl_val(l); > > + wrmsr(MSR_TEST_CTL, l, h); > > + show_split_lock_detection_info(); > > + mutex_unlock(&split_lock_detect_mutex); > > + } > > +} > > + > > static void early_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) > > { > > u64 misc_enable; > > > > + init_split_lock_detect(c); > > so we have in early boot: > > early_cpu_init() > early_identify_cpu() > this_cpu->c_early_init(c) > early_init_intel() { > init_split_lock_detect(); > } > .... > cpu_set_core_cap_bits(c) > set(FEATURE_SPLIT_LOCK) > > I don't have to understand how init_split_lock_detect() will magically see > the feature bit which gets set afterwards, right? early_init_intel() is called twice on the boot CPU. Besides it's called in earl_cpu_init(), it's also called in: identify_boot_cpu() identify_cpu() init_intel() early_init_intel() init_split_lock_detect(); It's true that init_split_lock_detect() doesn't see the feature bit when it's called for the first time in early_cpu_init(). But it sees the feature bit when it's called for the second time in identify_boot_cpu(). So is init_split_lock_detect() in the right place? Thanks. -Fenghua