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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c, branch v4.2.7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/alternatives: Make optimize_nops() interrupt safe and synced</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T21:49:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-03T10:34:55+00:00</published>
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commit 66c117d7fa2ae429911e60d84bf31a90b2b96189 upstream.

Richard reported the following crash:

[    0.036000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 55501e06
[    0.036000] IP: [&lt;c0aae48b&gt;] common_interrupt+0xb/0x38
[    0.036000] Call Trace:
[    0.036000]  [&lt;c0409c80&gt;] ? add_nops+0x90/0xa0
[    0.036000]  [&lt;c040a054&gt;] apply_alternatives+0x274/0x630

Chuck decoded:

 "  0:   8d 90 90 83 04 24       lea    0x24048390(%eax),%edx
    6:   80 fc 0f                cmp    $0xf,%ah
    9:   a8 0f                   test   $0xf,%al
 &gt;&gt; b:   a0 06 1e 50 55          mov    0x55501e06,%al
   10:   57                      push   %edi
   11:   56                      push   %esi

 Interrupt 0x30 occurred while the alternatives code was replacing the
 initial 0x90,0x90,0x90 NOPs (from the ASM_CLAC macro) with the
 optimized version, 0x8d,0x76,0x00. Only the first byte has been
 replaced so far, and it makes a mess out of the insn decoding."

optimize_nops() is buggy in two aspects:

- It's not disabling interrupts across the modification
- It's lacking a sync_core() call

Add both.

Fixes: 4fd4b6e5537c 'x86/alternatives: Use optimized NOPs for padding'
Reported-and-tested-by: "Richard W.M. Jones" &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1509031232340.15006@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 66c117d7fa2ae429911e60d84bf31a90b2b96189 upstream.

Richard reported the following crash:

[    0.036000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 55501e06
[    0.036000] IP: [&lt;c0aae48b&gt;] common_interrupt+0xb/0x38
[    0.036000] Call Trace:
[    0.036000]  [&lt;c0409c80&gt;] ? add_nops+0x90/0xa0
[    0.036000]  [&lt;c040a054&gt;] apply_alternatives+0x274/0x630

Chuck decoded:

 "  0:   8d 90 90 83 04 24       lea    0x24048390(%eax),%edx
    6:   80 fc 0f                cmp    $0xf,%ah
    9:   a8 0f                   test   $0xf,%al
 &gt;&gt; b:   a0 06 1e 50 55          mov    0x55501e06,%al
   10:   57                      push   %edi
   11:   56                      push   %esi

 Interrupt 0x30 occurred while the alternatives code was replacing the
 initial 0x90,0x90,0x90 NOPs (from the ASM_CLAC macro) with the
 optimized version, 0x8d,0x76,0x00. Only the first byte has been
 replaced so far, and it makes a mess out of the insn decoding."

optimize_nops() is buggy in two aspects:

- It's not disabling interrupts across the modification
- It's lacking a sync_core() call

Add both.

Fixes: 4fd4b6e5537c 'x86/alternatives: Use optimized NOPs for padding'
Reported-and-tested-by: "Richard W.M. Jones" &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1509031232340.15006@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:59:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T00:59:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=d70b3ef54ceaf1c7c92209f5a662a670d04cbed9'/>
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Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
  in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
  so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
  collected into the 'x86/core' topic.

  The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
  bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
  but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
  dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
  end.

  The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
  have fewer dependencies).

  The main changes in this cycle were:

   * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
     Gleixner)

     - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
       interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
       domains:

          [IOAPIC domain]   -----
                                 |
          [MSI domain]      --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
                                 |   (optional)          |
          [HPET MSI domain] -----                        |
                                                         |
          [DMAR domain]     -----------------------------
                                                         |
          [Legacy domain]   -----------------------------

       This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
       the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
       can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping.  It's a clear
       separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
       constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
       and the vector management.

     - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
       injection into guests (Feng Wu)

   * x86/asm changes:

     - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations.  This
       is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
       code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
       Brian Gerst)

     - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
       arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)

     - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
       Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
       they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
       not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)

     - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/mm changes:

     - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
       preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
       in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
       Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)

     - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
       Write-Through cached memory mappings.  This is especially
       important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)

   * x86/ras changes:

     - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)

       This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
       poisoned data.  That means roughly that the hardware marks data
       which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
       poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
       form of a deferred error.  It is the OS's responsibility then to
       take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
       far as possible.

     - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
       CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
       wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)

     - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/platform changes:

     - Intel Atom SoC updates

  ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
  shortlog and the Git log for details"

* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
  x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
  x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
  genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
  genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
  iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
  iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
  iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
  iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
  iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
  iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
  iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
  iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
  iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
  iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
  x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
  x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
  x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
  ...
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Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
  in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
  so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
  collected into the 'x86/core' topic.

  The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
  bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
  but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
  dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
  end.

  The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
  have fewer dependencies).

  The main changes in this cycle were:

   * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
     Gleixner)

     - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
       interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
       domains:

          [IOAPIC domain]   -----
                                 |
          [MSI domain]      --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
                                 |   (optional)          |
          [HPET MSI domain] -----                        |
                                                         |
          [DMAR domain]     -----------------------------
                                                         |
          [Legacy domain]   -----------------------------

       This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
       the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
       can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping.  It's a clear
       separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
       constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
       and the vector management.

     - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
       injection into guests (Feng Wu)

   * x86/asm changes:

     - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations.  This
       is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
       code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
       Brian Gerst)

     - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
       arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)

     - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
       Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
       they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
       not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)

     - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/mm changes:

     - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
       preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
       in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
       Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)

     - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
       Write-Through cached memory mappings.  This is especially
       important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)

   * x86/ras changes:

     - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)

       This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
       poisoned data.  That means roughly that the hardware marks data
       which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
       poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
       form of a deferred error.  It is the OS's responsibility then to
       take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
       far as possible.

     - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
       CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
       wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)

     - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/platform changes:

     - Intel Atom SoC updates

  ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
  shortlog and the Git log for details"

* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
  x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
  x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
  genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
  genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
  iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
  iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
  iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
  iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
  iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
  iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
  iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
  iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
  iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
  iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
  x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
  x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
  x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternatives, x86/fpu: Add 'alternatives_patched' debug flag and use it in xsave_state()</title>
<updated>2015-05-19T13:48:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-30T07:09:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=5e907bb0459399b0d1cc8d4c7e9f363a995b748a'/>
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We'd like to use xsave_state() earlier, but its SYSTEM_BOOTING check
is too imprecise.

The real condition that xsave_state() would like to check is whether
alternative XSAVE instructions were patched into the kernel image
already.

Add such a (read-mostly) debug flag and use it in xsave_state().

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We'd like to use xsave_state() earlier, but its SYSTEM_BOOTING check
is too imprecise.

The real condition that xsave_state() would like to check is whether
alternative XSAVE instructions were patched into the kernel image
already.

Add such a (read-mostly) debug flag and use it in xsave_state().

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternatives: Switch AMD F15h and later to the P6 NOPs</title>
<updated>2015-05-11T08:26:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-11T08:15:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=f21262b8e092a770e39fbd405cc18a0247c3af68'/>
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<content type='text'>
Software optimization guides for both F15h and F16h cite those
NOPs as the optimal ones. A microbenchmark confirms that
actually even older families are better with the single-insn
NOPs so switch to them for the alternatives.

Cycles count below includes the loop overhead of the measurement
but that overhead is the same with all runs.

	F10h, revE:
	-----------
	Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions

	K8:
			      90     288.212282 cycles
			   66 90     288.220840 cycles
			66 66 90     288.219447 cycles
		     66 66 66 90     288.223204 cycles
		  66 66 90 66 90     571.393424 cycles
	       66 66 90 66 66 90     571.374919 cycles
	    66 66 66 90 66 66 90     572.249281 cycles
	 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90     571.388651 cycles

	P6:
			      90     288.214193 cycles
			   66 90     288.225550 cycles
			0f 1f 00     288.224441 cycles
		     0f 1f 40 00     288.225030 cycles
		  0f 1f 44 00 00     288.233558 cycles
	       66 0f 1f 44 00 00     324.792342 cycles
	    0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00     325.657462 cycles
	 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00     430.246643 cycles

	F14h:
	----
	Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions

	K8:
			      90     510.404890 cycles
			   66 90     510.432117 cycles
			66 66 90     510.561858 cycles
		     66 66 66 90     510.541865 cycles
		  66 66 90 66 90    1014.192782 cycles
	       66 66 90 66 66 90    1014.226546 cycles
	    66 66 66 90 66 66 90    1014.334299 cycles
	 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90    1014.381205 cycles

	P6:
			      90     510.436710 cycles
			   66 90     510.448229 cycles
			0f 1f 00     510.545100 cycles
		     0f 1f 40 00     510.502792 cycles
		  0f 1f 44 00 00     510.589517 cycles
	       66 0f 1f 44 00 00     510.611462 cycles
	    0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00     511.166794 cycles
	 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00     511.651641 cycles

	F15h:
	-----
	Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions

	K8:
			      90     243.128396 cycles
			   66 90     243.129883 cycles
			66 66 90     243.131631 cycles
		     66 66 66 90     242.499324 cycles
		  66 66 90 66 90     481.829083 cycles
	       66 66 90 66 66 90     481.884413 cycles
	    66 66 66 90 66 66 90     481.851446 cycles
	 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90     481.409220 cycles

	P6:
			      90     243.127026 cycles
			   66 90     243.130711 cycles
			0f 1f 00     243.122747 cycles
		     0f 1f 40 00     242.497617 cycles
		  0f 1f 44 00 00     245.354461 cycles
	       66 0f 1f 44 00 00     361.930417 cycles
	    0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00     362.844944 cycles
	 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00     480.514948 cycles

	F16h:
	-----
	Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions

	K8:
			      90     507.793298 cycles
			   66 90     507.789636 cycles
			66 66 90     507.826490 cycles
		     66 66 66 90     507.859075 cycles
		  66 66 90 66 90    1008.663129 cycles
	       66 66 90 66 66 90    1008.696259 cycles
	    66 66 66 90 66 66 90    1008.692517 cycles
	 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90    1008.755399 cycles

	P6:
			      90     507.795232 cycles
			   66 90     507.794761 cycles
			0f 1f 00     507.834901 cycles
		     0f 1f 40 00     507.822629 cycles
		  0f 1f 44 00 00     507.838493 cycles
	       66 0f 1f 44 00 00     507.908597 cycles
	    0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00     507.946417 cycles
	 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00     507.954960 cycles

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Aravind Gopalakrishnan &lt;aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431332153-18566-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Software optimization guides for both F15h and F16h cite those
NOPs as the optimal ones. A microbenchmark confirms that
actually even older families are better with the single-insn
NOPs so switch to them for the alternatives.

Cycles count below includes the loop overhead of the measurement
but that overhead is the same with all runs.

	F10h, revE:
	-----------
	Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions

	K8:
			      90     288.212282 cycles
			   66 90     288.220840 cycles
			66 66 90     288.219447 cycles
		     66 66 66 90     288.223204 cycles
		  66 66 90 66 90     571.393424 cycles
	       66 66 90 66 66 90     571.374919 cycles
	    66 66 66 90 66 66 90     572.249281 cycles
	 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90     571.388651 cycles

	P6:
			      90     288.214193 cycles
			   66 90     288.225550 cycles
			0f 1f 00     288.224441 cycles
		     0f 1f 40 00     288.225030 cycles
		  0f 1f 44 00 00     288.233558 cycles
	       66 0f 1f 44 00 00     324.792342 cycles
	    0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00     325.657462 cycles
	 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00     430.246643 cycles

	F14h:
	----
	Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions

	K8:
			      90     510.404890 cycles
			   66 90     510.432117 cycles
			66 66 90     510.561858 cycles
		     66 66 66 90     510.541865 cycles
		  66 66 90 66 90    1014.192782 cycles
	       66 66 90 66 66 90    1014.226546 cycles
	    66 66 66 90 66 66 90    1014.334299 cycles
	 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90    1014.381205 cycles

	P6:
			      90     510.436710 cycles
			   66 90     510.448229 cycles
			0f 1f 00     510.545100 cycles
		     0f 1f 40 00     510.502792 cycles
		  0f 1f 44 00 00     510.589517 cycles
	       66 0f 1f 44 00 00     510.611462 cycles
	    0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00     511.166794 cycles
	 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00     511.651641 cycles

	F15h:
	-----
	Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions

	K8:
			      90     243.128396 cycles
			   66 90     243.129883 cycles
			66 66 90     243.131631 cycles
		     66 66 66 90     242.499324 cycles
		  66 66 90 66 90     481.829083 cycles
	       66 66 90 66 66 90     481.884413 cycles
	    66 66 66 90 66 66 90     481.851446 cycles
	 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90     481.409220 cycles

	P6:
			      90     243.127026 cycles
			   66 90     243.130711 cycles
			0f 1f 00     243.122747 cycles
		     0f 1f 40 00     242.497617 cycles
		  0f 1f 44 00 00     245.354461 cycles
	       66 0f 1f 44 00 00     361.930417 cycles
	    0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00     362.844944 cycles
	 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00     480.514948 cycles

	F16h:
	-----
	Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions

	K8:
			      90     507.793298 cycles
			   66 90     507.789636 cycles
			66 66 90     507.826490 cycles
		     66 66 66 90     507.859075 cycles
		  66 66 90 66 90    1008.663129 cycles
	       66 66 90 66 66 90    1008.696259 cycles
	    66 66 66 90 66 66 90    1008.692517 cycles
	 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90    1008.755399 cycles

	P6:
			      90     507.795232 cycles
			   66 90     507.794761 cycles
			0f 1f 00     507.834901 cycles
		     0f 1f 40 00     507.822629 cycles
		  0f 1f 44 00 00     507.838493 cycles
	       66 0f 1f 44 00 00     507.908597 cycles
	    0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00     507.946417 cycles
	 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00     507.954960 cycles

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Aravind Gopalakrishnan &lt;aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431332153-18566-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternatives: Guard NOPs optimization</title>
<updated>2015-04-06T07:24:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-04T21:07:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=69df353ff305805fc16082d0c5bfa6e20fa8b863'/>
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Take a look at the first instruction byte before optimizing the NOP -
there might be something else there already, like the ALTERNATIVE_2()
in rdtsc_barrier() which NOPs out on AMD even though we just
patched in an MFENCE.

This happens because the alternatives sees X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
AMD CPUs set it, we patch in the MFENCE and right afterwards it sees
X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC which AMD CPUs don't set and we blindly
optimize the NOP.

Checking whether at least the first byte is 0x90 prevents that.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428181662-18020-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Take a look at the first instruction byte before optimizing the NOP -
there might be something else there already, like the ALTERNATIVE_2()
in rdtsc_barrier() which NOPs out on AMD even though we just
patched in an MFENCE.

This happens because the alternatives sees X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
AMD CPUs set it, we patch in the MFENCE and right afterwards it sees
X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC which AMD CPUs don't set and we blindly
optimize the NOP.

Checking whether at least the first byte is 0x90 prevents that.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428181662-18020-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternatives: Fix ALTERNATIVE_2 padding generation properly</title>
<updated>2015-04-04T13:58:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-04T13:34:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=dbe4058a6a44af4ca5d146aebe01b0a1f9b7fd2a'/>
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Quentin caught a corner case with the generation of instruction
padding in the ALTERNATIVE_2 macro: if len(orig_insn) &lt;
len(alt1) &lt; len(alt2), then not enough padding gets added and
that is not good(tm) as we could overwrite the beginning of the
next instruction.

Luckily, at the time of this writing, we don't have
ALTERNATIVE_2() invocations which have that problem and even if
we did, a simple fix would be to prepend the instructions with
enough prefixes so that that corner case doesn't happen.

However, best it would be if we fixed it properly. See below for
a simple, abstracted example of what we're doing.

So what we ended up doing is, we compute the

	max(len(alt1), len(alt2)) - len(orig_insn)

and feed that value to the .skip gas directive. The max() cannot
have conditionals due to gas limitations, thus the fancy integer
math.

With this patch, all ALTERNATIVE_2 sites get padded correctly;
generating obscure test cases pass too:

  #define alt_max_short(a, b)    ((a) ^ (((a) ^ (b)) &amp; -(-((a) &lt; (b)))))

  #define gen_skip(orig, alt1, alt2, marker)	\
  	.skip -((alt_max_short(alt1, alt2) - (orig)) &gt; 0) * \
  		(alt_max_short(alt1, alt2) - (orig)),marker

  	.pushsection .text, "ax"
  .globl main
  main:
  	gen_skip(1, 2, 4, 0x09)
  	gen_skip(4, 1, 2, 0x10)
  	...
  	.popsection

Thanks to Quentin for catching it and double-checking the fix!

Reported-by: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150404133443.GE21152@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Quentin caught a corner case with the generation of instruction
padding in the ALTERNATIVE_2 macro: if len(orig_insn) &lt;
len(alt1) &lt; len(alt2), then not enough padding gets added and
that is not good(tm) as we could overwrite the beginning of the
next instruction.

Luckily, at the time of this writing, we don't have
ALTERNATIVE_2() invocations which have that problem and even if
we did, a simple fix would be to prepend the instructions with
enough prefixes so that that corner case doesn't happen.

However, best it would be if we fixed it properly. See below for
a simple, abstracted example of what we're doing.

So what we ended up doing is, we compute the

	max(len(alt1), len(alt2)) - len(orig_insn)

and feed that value to the .skip gas directive. The max() cannot
have conditionals due to gas limitations, thus the fancy integer
math.

With this patch, all ALTERNATIVE_2 sites get padded correctly;
generating obscure test cases pass too:

  #define alt_max_short(a, b)    ((a) ^ (((a) ^ (b)) &amp; -(-((a) &lt; (b)))))

  #define gen_skip(orig, alt1, alt2, marker)	\
  	.skip -((alt_max_short(alt1, alt2) - (orig)) &gt; 0) * \
  		(alt_max_short(alt1, alt2) - (orig)),marker

  	.pushsection .text, "ax"
  .globl main
  main:
  	gen_skip(1, 2, 4, 0x09)
  	gen_skip(4, 1, 2, 0x10)
  	...
  	.popsection

Thanks to Quentin for catching it and double-checking the fix!

Reported-by: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150404133443.GE21152@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/entry: Change all 'user_mode_vm()' calls to 'user_mode()'</title>
<updated>2015-03-23T10:14:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-19T01:33:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=f39b6f0ef855a38ea17329a4e621ff97750dfcc2'/>
<id>f39b6f0ef855a38ea17329a4e621ff97750dfcc2</id>
<content type='text'>
user_mode_vm() and user_mode() are now the same.  Change all callers
of user_mode_vm() to user_mode().

The next patch will remove the definition of user_mode_vm.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/43b1f57f3df70df5a08b0925897c660725015554.1426728647.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Merged to a more recent kernel. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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user_mode_vm() and user_mode() are now the same.  Change all callers
of user_mode_vm() to user_mode().

The next patch will remove the definition of user_mode_vm.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/43b1f57f3df70df5a08b0925897c660725015554.1426728647.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Merged to a more recent kernel. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternatives: Use optimized NOPs for padding</title>
<updated>2015-02-23T12:44:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-10T19:34:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=4fd4b6e5537cec5b56db0b22546dd439ebb26830'/>
<id>4fd4b6e5537cec5b56db0b22546dd439ebb26830</id>
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Alternatives allow now for an empty old instruction. In this case we go
and pad the space with NOPs at assembly time. However, there are the
optimal, longer NOPs which should be used. Do that at patching time by
adding alt_instr.padlen-sized NOPs at the old instruction address.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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Alternatives allow now for an empty old instruction. In this case we go
and pad the space with NOPs at assembly time. However, there are the
optimal, longer NOPs which should be used. Do that at patching time by
adding alt_instr.padlen-sized NOPs at the old instruction address.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternatives: Make JMPs more robust</title>
<updated>2015-02-23T12:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-05T12:48:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=48c7a2509f9e237d8465399d9cdfe487d3212a23'/>
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Up until now we had to pay attention to relative JMPs in alternatives
about how their relative offset gets computed so that the jump target
is still correct. Or, as it is the case for near CALLs (opcode e8), we
still have to go and readjust the offset at patching time.

What is more, the static_cpu_has_safe() facility had to forcefully
generate 5-byte JMPs since we couldn't rely on the compiler to generate
properly sized ones so we had to force the longest ones. Worse than
that, sometimes it would generate a replacement JMP which is longer than
the original one, thus overwriting the beginning of the next instruction
at patching time.

So, in order to alleviate all that and make using JMPs more
straight-forward we go and pad the original instruction in an
alternative block with NOPs at build time, should the replacement(s) be
longer. This way, alternatives users shouldn't pay special attention
so that original and replacement instruction sizes are fine but the
assembler would simply add padding where needed and not do anything
otherwise.

As a second aspect, we go and recompute JMPs at patching time so that we
can try to make 5-byte JMPs into two-byte ones if possible. If not, we
still have to recompute the offsets as the replacement JMP gets put far
away in the .altinstr_replacement section leading to a wrong offset if
copied verbatim.

For example, on a locally generated kernel image

  old insn VA: 0xffffffff810014bd, CPU feat: X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS, size: 2
  __switch_to:
   ffffffff810014bd:      eb 21                   jmp ffffffff810014e0
  repl insn: size: 5
  ffffffff81d0b23c:       e9 b1 62 2f ff          jmpq ffffffff810014f2

gets corrected to a 2-byte JMP:

  apply_alternatives: feat: 3*32+21, old: (ffffffff810014bd, len: 2), repl: (ffffffff81d0b23c, len: 5)
  alt_insn: e9 b1 62 2f ff
  recompute_jumps: next_rip: ffffffff81d0b241, tgt_rip: ffffffff810014f2, new_displ: 0x00000033, ret len: 2
  converted to: eb 33 90 90 90

and a 5-byte JMP:

  old insn VA: 0xffffffff81001516, CPU feat: X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS, size: 2
  __switch_to:
   ffffffff81001516:      eb 30                   jmp ffffffff81001548
  repl insn: size: 5
   ffffffff81d0b241:      e9 10 63 2f ff          jmpq ffffffff81001556

gets shortened into a two-byte one:

  apply_alternatives: feat: 3*32+21, old: (ffffffff81001516, len: 2), repl: (ffffffff81d0b241, len: 5)
  alt_insn: e9 10 63 2f ff
  recompute_jumps: next_rip: ffffffff81d0b246, tgt_rip: ffffffff81001556, new_displ: 0x0000003e, ret len: 2
  converted to: eb 3e 90 90 90

... and so on.

This leads to a net win of around

40ish replacements * 3 bytes savings =~ 120 bytes of I$

on an AMD guest which means some savings of precious instruction cache
bandwidth. The padding to the shorter 2-byte JMPs are single-byte NOPs
which on smart microarchitectures means discarding NOPs at decode time
and thus freeing up execution bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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Up until now we had to pay attention to relative JMPs in alternatives
about how their relative offset gets computed so that the jump target
is still correct. Or, as it is the case for near CALLs (opcode e8), we
still have to go and readjust the offset at patching time.

What is more, the static_cpu_has_safe() facility had to forcefully
generate 5-byte JMPs since we couldn't rely on the compiler to generate
properly sized ones so we had to force the longest ones. Worse than
that, sometimes it would generate a replacement JMP which is longer than
the original one, thus overwriting the beginning of the next instruction
at patching time.

So, in order to alleviate all that and make using JMPs more
straight-forward we go and pad the original instruction in an
alternative block with NOPs at build time, should the replacement(s) be
longer. This way, alternatives users shouldn't pay special attention
so that original and replacement instruction sizes are fine but the
assembler would simply add padding where needed and not do anything
otherwise.

As a second aspect, we go and recompute JMPs at patching time so that we
can try to make 5-byte JMPs into two-byte ones if possible. If not, we
still have to recompute the offsets as the replacement JMP gets put far
away in the .altinstr_replacement section leading to a wrong offset if
copied verbatim.

For example, on a locally generated kernel image

  old insn VA: 0xffffffff810014bd, CPU feat: X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS, size: 2
  __switch_to:
   ffffffff810014bd:      eb 21                   jmp ffffffff810014e0
  repl insn: size: 5
  ffffffff81d0b23c:       e9 b1 62 2f ff          jmpq ffffffff810014f2

gets corrected to a 2-byte JMP:

  apply_alternatives: feat: 3*32+21, old: (ffffffff810014bd, len: 2), repl: (ffffffff81d0b23c, len: 5)
  alt_insn: e9 b1 62 2f ff
  recompute_jumps: next_rip: ffffffff81d0b241, tgt_rip: ffffffff810014f2, new_displ: 0x00000033, ret len: 2
  converted to: eb 33 90 90 90

and a 5-byte JMP:

  old insn VA: 0xffffffff81001516, CPU feat: X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS, size: 2
  __switch_to:
   ffffffff81001516:      eb 30                   jmp ffffffff81001548
  repl insn: size: 5
   ffffffff81d0b241:      e9 10 63 2f ff          jmpq ffffffff81001556

gets shortened into a two-byte one:

  apply_alternatives: feat: 3*32+21, old: (ffffffff81001516, len: 2), repl: (ffffffff81d0b241, len: 5)
  alt_insn: e9 10 63 2f ff
  recompute_jumps: next_rip: ffffffff81d0b246, tgt_rip: ffffffff81001556, new_displ: 0x0000003e, ret len: 2
  converted to: eb 3e 90 90 90

... and so on.

This leads to a net win of around

40ish replacements * 3 bytes savings =~ 120 bytes of I$

on an AMD guest which means some savings of precious instruction cache
bandwidth. The padding to the shorter 2-byte JMPs are single-byte NOPs
which on smart microarchitectures means discarding NOPs at decode time
and thus freeing up execution bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternatives: Add instruction padding</title>
<updated>2015-02-23T12:44:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-27T09:41:52+00:00</published>
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Up until now we have always paid attention to make sure the length of
the new instruction replacing the old one is at least less or equal to
the length of the old instruction. If the new instruction is longer, at
the time it replaces the old instruction it will overwrite the beginning
of the next instruction in the kernel image and cause your pants to
catch fire.

So instead of having to pay attention, teach the alternatives framework
to pad shorter old instructions with NOPs at buildtime - but only in the
case when

  len(old instruction(s)) &lt; len(new instruction(s))

and add nothing in the &gt;= case. (In that case we do add_nops() when
patching).

This way the alternatives user shouldn't have to care about instruction
sizes and simply use the macros.

Add asm ALTERNATIVE* flavor macros too, while at it.

Also, we need to save the pad length in a separate struct alt_instr
member for NOP optimization and the way to do that reliably is to carry
the pad length instead of trying to detect whether we're looking at
single-byte NOPs or at pathological instruction offsets like e9 90 90 90
90, for example, which is a valid instruction.

Thanks to Michael Matz for the great help with toolchain questions.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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Up until now we have always paid attention to make sure the length of
the new instruction replacing the old one is at least less or equal to
the length of the old instruction. If the new instruction is longer, at
the time it replaces the old instruction it will overwrite the beginning
of the next instruction in the kernel image and cause your pants to
catch fire.

So instead of having to pay attention, teach the alternatives framework
to pad shorter old instructions with NOPs at buildtime - but only in the
case when

  len(old instruction(s)) &lt; len(new instruction(s))

and add nothing in the &gt;= case. (In that case we do add_nops() when
patching).

This way the alternatives user shouldn't have to care about instruction
sizes and simply use the macros.

Add asm ALTERNATIVE* flavor macros too, while at it.

Also, we need to save the pad length in a separate struct alt_instr
member for NOP optimization and the way to do that reliably is to carry
the pad length instead of trying to detect whether we're looking at
single-byte NOPs or at pathological instruction offsets like e9 90 90 90
90, for example, which is a valid instruction.

Thanks to Michael Matz for the great help with toolchain questions.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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