linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S, branch v4.19

x86/uaccess: Optimize copy_user_enhanced_fast_string() for short strings

2017-06-30T07:52:51+00:00

According to the Intel datasheet, the REP MOVSB instruction
exposes a pretty heavy setup cost (50 ticks), which hurts
short string copy operations.

This change tries to avoid this cost by calling the explicit
loop available in the unrolled code for strings shorter
than 64 bytes.

The 64 bytes cutoff value is arbitrary from the code logic
point of view - it has been selected based on measurements,
as the largest value that still ensures a measurable gain.

Micro benchmarks of the __copy_from_user() function with
lengths in the [0-63] range show this performance gain
(shorter the string, larger the gain):

 - in the [55%-4%] range on Intel Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4
 - in the [72%-9%] range on Intel Core i7-4810MQ

Other tested CPUs - namely Intel Atom S1260 and AMD Opteron
8216 - show no difference, because they do not expose the
ERMS feature bit.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4533a1d101fd460f80e21329a34928fad521c1d4.1498744345.git.pabeni@redhat.com
[ Clarified the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/copy_user: Unify the code by removing the 64-bit asm _copy_*_user() variants

2016-11-01T06:41:27+00:00

We already have the same functionality in usercopy_32.c. Share it with
64-bit and get rid of some more asm glue which is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161031151015.22087-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: move exports to actual definitions

2016-08-08T03:47:15+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

x86/uaccess: Move thread_info::addr_limit to thread_struct

2016-07-15T08:26:30+00:00

struct thread_info is a legacy mess.  To prepare for its partial removal,
move thread_info::addr_limit out.

As an added benefit, this way is simpler.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/15bee834d09402b47ac86f2feccdf6529f9bc5b0.1468527351.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes

2016-02-18T08:28:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/uaccess/64: Handle the caching of 4-byte nocache copies properly in __copy_user_nocache()

2016-02-17T08:10:23+00:00

Data corruption issues were observed in tests which initiated
a system crash/reset while accessing BTT devices.  This problem
is reproducible.

The BTT driver calls pmem_rw_bytes() to update data in pmem
devices.  This interface calls __copy_user_nocache(), which
uses non-temporal stores so that the stores to pmem are
persistent.

__copy_user_nocache() uses non-temporal stores when a request
size is 8 bytes or larger (and is aligned by 8 bytes).  The
BTT driver updates the BTT map table, which entry size is
4 bytes.  Therefore, updates to the map table entries remain
cached, and are not written to pmem after a crash.

Change __copy_user_nocache() to use non-temporal store when
a request size is 4 bytes.  The change extends the current
byte-copy path for a less-than-8-bytes request, and does not
add any overhead to the regular path.

Reported-and-tested-by: Micah Parrish 
Reported-and-tested-by: Brian Boylston 
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Cc: 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Vishal Verma 
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455225857-12039-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/uaccess/64: Make the __copy_user_nocache() assembly code more readable

2016-02-17T08:10:22+00:00

Add comments to __copy_user_nocache() to clarify its procedures
and alignment requirements.

Also change numeric branch target labels to named local labels.

No code changed:

 arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.o:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    1239       0       0    1239     4d7 copy_user_64.o.before
    1239       0       0    1239     4d7 copy_user_64.o.after

 md5:
    58bed94c2db98c1ca9a2d46d0680aaae  copy_user_64.o.before.asm
    58bed94c2db98c1ca9a2d46d0680aaae  copy_user_64.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Cc: 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: brian.boylston@hpe.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: micah.parrish@hpe.com
Cc: ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Cc: vishal.l.verma@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455225857-12039-2-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
[ Small readability edits and added object file comparison. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_*

2016-01-30T10:22:17+00:00

Move them to a separate header and have the following
dependency:

  x86/cpufeatures.h <- x86/processor.h <- x86/cpufeature.h

This makes it easier to use the header in asm code and not
include the whole cpufeature.h and add guards for asm.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/debug: Remove perpetually broken, unmaintainable dwarf annotations

2015-06-02T05:57:48+00:00

So the dwarf2 annotations in low level assembly code have
become an increasing hindrance: unreadable, messy macros
mixed into some of the most security sensitive code paths
of the Linux kernel.

These debug info annotations don't even buy the upstream
kernel anything: dwarf driven stack unwinding has caused
problems in the past so it's out of tree, and the upstream
kernel only uses the much more robust framepointers based
stack unwinding method.

In addition to that there's a steady, slow bitrot going
on with these annotations, requiring frequent fixups.
There's no tooling and no functionality upstream that
keeps it correct.

So burn down the sick forest, allowing new, healthier growth:

   27 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 1101 deletions(-)

Someone who has the willingness and time to do this
properly can attempt to reintroduce dwarf debuginfo in x86
assembly code plus dwarf unwinding from first principles,
with the following conditions:

 - it should be maximally readable, and maximally low-key to
   'ordinary' code reading and maintenance.

 - find a build time method to insert dwarf annotations
   automatically in the most common cases, for pop/push
   instructions that manipulate the stack pointer. This could
   be done for example via a preprocessing step that just
   looks for common patterns - plus special annotations for
   the few cases where we want to depart from the default.
   We have hundreds of CFI annotations, so automating most of
   that makes sense.

 - it should come with build tooling checks that ensure that
   CFI annotations are sensible. We've seen such efforts from
   the framepointer side, and there's no reason it couldn't be
   done on the dwarf side.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/asm/uaccess: Get rid of copy_user_nocache_64.S

2015-05-14T05:25:35+00:00

Move __copy_user_nocache() to arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S and
kill the containing file.

No functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431538944-27724-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar