[PATCH v1 2/2] epoll: Use __user_write_access_begin() and unsafe_put_user() in epoll_put_uevent().

Andrew Cooper andrew.cooper3 at citrix.com
Wed Oct 29 12:42:42 AEDT 2025


> Yeah, clac/stac are horrenously expensive on Zen 2. I think they are
> microcoded - and not the fast kind - so effectively serializing.

AIUI, Zen5 is the first uarch capable of renaming the AC flag.

This make STAC/CLAC "lfence-like" in practice on older CPUs, because of
an implementation constraint of not being able to execute speculatively.

~Andrew


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