kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c, branch linux-6.1.y

powerpc/64s/slb: Fix SLB multihit issue during SLB preload

2026-01-11T14:19:07Z

commit 00312419f0863964625d6dcda8183f96849412c6 upstream. On systems using the hash MMU, there is a software SLB preload cache that mirrors the entries loaded into the hardware SLB buffer. This preload cache is subject to periodic eviction — typically after every 256 context switches — to remove old entry. To optimize performance, the kernel skips switch_mmu_context() in switch_mm_irqs_off() when the prev and next mm_struct are the same. However, on hash MMU systems, this can lead to inconsistencies between the hardware SLB and the software preload cache. If an SLB entry for a process is evicted from the software cache on one CPU, and the same process later runs on another CPU without executing switch_mmu_context(), the hardware SLB may retain stale entries. If the kernel then attempts to reload that entry, it can trigger an SLB multi-hit error. The following timeline shows how stale SLB entries are created and can cause a multi-hit error when a process moves between CPUs without a MMU context switch. CPU 0 CPU 1 ----- ----- Process P exec swapper/1 load_elf_binary begin_new_exc activate_mm switch_mm_irqs_off switch_mmu_context switch_slb /* * This invalidates all * the entries in the HW * and setup the new HW * SLB entries as per the * preload cache. */ context_switch sched_migrate_task migrates process P to cpu-1 Process swapper/0 context switch (to process P) (uses mm_struct of Process P) switch_mm_irqs_off() switch_slb load_slb++ /* * load_slb becomes 0 here * and we evict an entry from * the preload cache with * preload_age(). We still * keep HW SLB and preload * cache in sync, that is * because all HW SLB entries * anyways gets evicted in * switch_slb during SLBIA. * We then only add those * entries back in HW SLB, * which are currently * present in preload_cache * (after eviction). */ load_elf_binary continues... setup_new_exec() slb_setup_new_exec() sched_switch event sched_migrate_task migrates process P to cpu-0 context_switch from swapper/0 to Process P switch_mm_irqs_off() /* * Since both prev and next mm struct are same we don't call * switch_mmu_context(). This will cause the HW SLB and SW preload * cache to go out of sync in preload_new_slb_context. Because there * was an SLB entry which was evicted from both HW and preload cache * on cpu-1. Now later in preload_new_slb_context(), when we will try * to add the same preload entry again, we will add this to the SW * preload cache and then will add it to the HW SLB. Since on cpu-0 * this entry was never invalidated, hence adding this entry to the HW * SLB will cause a SLB multi-hit error. */ load_elf_binary continues... START_THREAD start_thread preload_new_slb_context /* * This tries to add a new EA to preload cache which was earlier * evicted from both cpu-1 HW SLB and preload cache. This caused the * HW SLB of cpu-0 to go out of sync with the SW preload cache. The * reason for this was, that when we context switched back on CPU-0, * we should have ideally called switch_mmu_context() which will * bring the HW SLB entries on CPU-0 in sync with SW preload cache * entries by setting up the mmu context properly. But we didn't do * that since the prev mm_struct running on cpu-0 was same as the * next mm_struct (which is true for swapper / kernel threads). So * now when we try to add this new entry into the HW SLB of cpu-0, * we hit a SLB multi-hit error. */ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1810970 at arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c:62 assert_slb_presence+0x2c/0x50(48 results) 02:47:29 [20157/42149] Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1810970 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3-dirty #12 VOLUNTARY Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER8 (architected) 0x4d0200 0xf000004 of:SLOF,HEAD hv:linux,kvm pSeries NIP: c00000000015426c LR: c0000000001543b4 CTR: 0000000000000000 REGS: c0000000497c77e0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.16.0-rc3-dirty) MSR: 8000000002823033 CR: 28888482 XER: 00000000 CFAR: c0000000001543b0 IRQMASK: 3 <...> NIP [c00000000015426c] assert_slb_presence+0x2c/0x50 LR [c0000000001543b4] slb_insert_entry+0x124/0x390 Call Trace: 0x7fffceb5ffff (unreliable) preload_new_slb_context+0x100/0x1a0 start_thread+0x26c/0x420 load_elf_binary+0x1b04/0x1c40 bprm_execve+0x358/0x680 do_execveat_common+0x1f8/0x240 sys_execve+0x58/0x70 system_call_exception+0x114/0x300 system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4 >From the above analysis, during early exec the hardware SLB is cleared, and entries from the software preload cache are reloaded into hardware by switch_slb. However, preload_new_slb_context and slb_setup_new_exec also attempt to load some of the same entries, which can trigger a multi-hit. In most cases, these additional preloads simply hit existing entries and add nothing new. Removing these functions avoids redundant preloads and eliminates the multi-hit issue. This patch removes these two functions. We tested process switching performance using the context_switch benchmark on POWER9/hash, and observed no regression. Without this patch: 129041 ops/sec With this patch: 129341 ops/sec We also measured SLB faults during boot, and the counts are essentially the same with and without this patch. SLB faults without this patch: 19727 SLB faults with this patch: 19786 Fixes: 5434ae74629a ("powerpc/64s/hash: Add a SLB preload cache") cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Donet Tom Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0ac694ae683494fe8cadbd911a1a5018d5d3c541.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KVM_RUN clobbering FP/VEC user registers

2023-12-08T07:51:15Z

commit dc158d23b33df9033bcc8e7117e8591dd2f9d125 upstream. Before running a guest, the host process (e.g., QEMU) FP/VEC registers are saved if they were being used, similarly to when the kernel uses FP registers. The guest values are then loaded into regs, and the host process registers will be restored lazily when it uses FP/VEC. KVM HV has a bug here: the host process registers do get saved, but the user MSR bits remain enabled, which indicates the registers are valid for the process. After they are clobbered by running the guest, this valid indication causes the host process to take on the FP/VEC register values of the guest. Fixes: 34e119c96b2b ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Reduce mtmsrd instructions required to save host SPRs") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.17+ Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20231122025811.2973-1-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'random-6.1-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random

2022-10-16T22:27:07Z

Pull more random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld: "This time with some large scale treewide cleanups. The intent of this pull is to clean up the way callers fetch random integers. The current rules for doing this right are: - If you want a secure or an insecure random u64, use get_random_u64() - If you want a secure or an insecure random u32, use get_random_u32() The old function prandom_u32() has been deprecated for a while now and is just a wrapper around get_random_u32(). Same for get_random_int(). - If you want a secure or an insecure random u16, use get_random_u16() - If you want a secure or an insecure random u8, use get_random_u8() - If you want secure or insecure random bytes, use get_random_bytes(). The old function prandom_bytes() has been deprecated for a while now and has long been a wrapper around get_random_bytes() - If you want a non-uniform random u32, u16, or u8 bounded by a certain open interval maximum, use prandom_u32_max() I say "non-uniform", because it doesn't do any rejection sampling or divisions. Hence, it stays within the prandom_*() namespace, not the get_random_*() namespace. I'm currently investigating a "uniform" function for 6.2. We'll see what comes of that. By applying these rules uniformly, we get several benefits: - By using prandom_u32_max() with an upper-bound that the compiler can prove at compile-time is ≤65536 or ≤256, internally get_random_u16() or get_random_u8() is used, which wastes fewer batched random bytes, and hence has higher throughput. - By using prandom_u32_max() instead of %, when the upper-bound is not a constant, division is still avoided, because prandom_u32_max() uses a faster multiplication-based trick instead. - By using get_random_u16() or get_random_u8() in cases where the return value is intended to indeed be a u16 or a u8, we waste fewer batched random bytes, and hence have higher throughput. This series was originally done by hand while I was on an airplane without Internet. Later, Kees and I worked on retroactively figuring out what could be done with Coccinelle and what had to be done manually, and then we split things up based on that. So while this touches a lot of files, the actual amount of code that's hand fiddled is comfortably small" * tag 'random-6.1-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: prandom: remove unused functions treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 2 treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 1 treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2 treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-12T18:00:22Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco) - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic (Valentin Schneider) - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei) - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu counters (Jiebin Sun) - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi) - lots of other single patches all over the tree! * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits) include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies ia64: update config files nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure fork: remove duplicate included header files init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions proc: mark more files as permanent nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse() checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion() ...

treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1

2022-10-11T23:42:55Z

Rather than incurring a division or requesting too many random bytes for the given range, use the prandom_u32_max() function, which only takes the minimum required bytes from the RNG and avoids divisions. This was done mechanically with this coccinelle script: @basic@ expression E; type T; identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32"; typedef u64; @@ ( - ((T)get_random_u32() % (E)) + prandom_u32_max(E) | - ((T)get_random_u32() & ((E) - 1)) + prandom_u32_max(E * XXX_MAKE_SURE_E_IS_POW2) | - ((u64)(E) * get_random_u32() >> 32) + prandom_u32_max(E) | - ((T)get_random_u32() & ~PAGE_MASK) + prandom_u32_max(PAGE_SIZE) ) @multi_line@ identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32"; identifier RAND; expression E; @@ - RAND = get_random_u32(); ... when != RAND - RAND %= (E); + RAND = prandom_u32_max(E); // Find a potential literal @literal_mask@ expression LITERAL; type T; identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32"; position p; @@ ((T)get_random_u32()@p & (LITERAL)) // Add one to the literal. @script:python add_one@ literal << literal_mask.LITERAL; RESULT; @@ value = None if literal.startswith('0x'): value = int(literal, 16) elif literal[0] in '123456789': value = int(literal, 10) if value is None: print("I don't know how to handle %s" % (literal)) cocci.include_match(False) elif value == 2**32 - 1 or value == 2**31 - 1 or value == 2**24 - 1 or value == 2**16 - 1 or value == 2**8 - 1: print("Skipping 0x%x for cleanup elsewhere" % (value)) cocci.include_match(False) elif value & (value + 1) != 0: print("Skipping 0x%x because it's not a power of two minus one" % (value)) cocci.include_match(False) elif literal.startswith('0x'): coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("0x%x" % (value + 1)) else: coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("%d" % (value + 1)) // Replace the literal mask with the calculated result. @plus_one@ expression literal_mask.LITERAL; position literal_mask.p; expression add_one.RESULT; identifier FUNC; @@ - (FUNC()@p & (LITERAL)) + prandom_u32_max(RESULT) @collapse_ret@ type T; identifier VAR; expression E; @@ { - T VAR; - VAR = (E); - return VAR; + return E; } @drop_var@ type T; identifier VAR; @@ { - T VAR; ... when != VAR } Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Yury Norov Reviewed-by: KP Singh Reviewed-by: Jan Kara # for ext4 and sbitmap Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder # for drbd Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Heiko Carstens # for s390 Acked-by: Ulf Hansson # for mmc Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong # for xfs Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

powerpc/64: Fix msr_check_and_set/clear MSR[EE] race

2022-10-04T12:16:20Z

irq soft-masking means that when Linux irqs are disabled, the MSR[EE] value can change from 1 to 0 asynchronously: if a masked interrupt of the PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK variety fires while irqs are disabled, the masked handler will return with MSR[EE]=0. This means a sequence like mtmsr(mfmsr() | MSR_FP) is racy if it can be called with local irqs disabled, unless a hard_irq_disable has been done. Reported-by: Sachin Sant Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221004051157.308999-2-npiggin@gmail.com

kernel: exit: cleanup release_thread()

2022-09-12T04:55:07Z

Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread() function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819014406.32266-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Acked-by: Guo Ren [csky] Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Brian Cain Acked-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Acked-by: Stafford Horne [openrisc] Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Acked-by: Huacai Chen [LoongArch] Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Guo Ren [csky] Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xuerui Wang Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

powerpc: Enable execve syscall exit tracepoint

2022-06-18T00:19:10Z

On execve[at], we are zero'ing out most of the thread register state including gpr[0], which contains the syscall number. Due to this, we fail to trigger the syscall exit tracepoint properly. Fix this by retaining gpr[0] in the thread register state. Before this patch: # tail /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace cat-123 [000] ..... 61.449351: sys_execve(filename: 7fffa6b23448, argv: 7fffa6b233e0, envp: 7fffa6b233f8) cat-124 [000] ..... 62.428481: sys_execve(filename: 7fffa6b23448, argv: 7fffa6b233e0, envp: 7fffa6b233f8) echo-125 [000] ..... 65.813702: sys_execve(filename: 7fffa6b23378, argv: 7fffa6b233a0, envp: 7fffa6b233b0) echo-125 [000] ..... 65.822214: sys_execveat(fd: 0, filename: 1009ac48, argv: 7ffff65d0c98, envp: 7ffff65d0ca8, flags: 0) After this patch: # tail /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace cat-127 [000] ..... 100.416262: sys_execve(filename: 7fffa41b3448, argv: 7fffa41b33e0, envp: 7fffa41b33f8) cat-127 [000] ..... 100.418203: sys_execve -> 0x0 echo-128 [000] ..... 103.873968: sys_execve(filename: 7fffa41b3378, argv: 7fffa41b33a0, envp: 7fffa41b33b0) echo-128 [000] ..... 103.875102: sys_execve -> 0x0 echo-128 [000] ..... 103.882097: sys_execveat(fd: 0, filename: 1009ac48, argv: 7fffd10d2148, envp: 7fffd10d2158, flags: 0) echo-128 [000] ..... 103.883225: sys_execveat -> 0x0 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao Tested-by: Sumit Dubey2 Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609103328.41306-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Merge tag 'powerpc-5.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2022-06-09T19:17:43Z

Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman: - On 32-bit fix overread/overwrite of thread_struct via ptrace PEEK/POKE. - Fix softirqs not switching to the softirq stack since we moved irq_exit(). - Force thread size increase when KASAN is enabled to avoid stack overflows. - On Book3s 64 mark more code as not to be instrumented by KASAN to avoid crashes. - Exempt __get_wchan() from KASAN checking, as it's inherently racy. - Fix a recently introduced crash in the papr_scm driver in some configurations. - Remove include of which is forbidden. Thanks to Ariel Miculas, Chen Jingwen, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, He Ying, Kees Cook, Masahiro Yamada, Nageswara R Sastry, Paul Mackerras, Sachin Sant, Vaibhav Jain, and Wanming Hu. * tag 'powerpc-5.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: powerpc/32: Fix overread/overwrite of thread_struct via ptrace powerpc/book3e: get rid of #include powerpc/kasan: Force thread size increase with KASAN powerpc/papr_scm: don't requests stats with '0' sized stats buffer powerpc: Don't select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK powerpc/kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in __get_wchan() powerpc/kasan: Mark more real-mode code as not to be instrumented

Merge tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2022-06-03T23:03:05Z

Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman: "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode tasks. Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of struct kthread possible. Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple enough to be backportable. The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things up and cause the code to make sense. In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace thread. I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code sitting in linux-next" * tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh