kernel.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c, branch linux-3.17.y

x86: Require exact match for 'noxsave' command line option

2014-12-06T23:57:15Z

commit 2cd3949f702692cf4c5d05b463f19cd706a92dd3 upstream. We have some very similarly named command-line options: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsave", x86_xsave_setup); arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaveopt", x86_xsaveopt_setup); arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaves", x86_xsaves_setup); __setup() is designed to match options that take arguments, like "foo=bar" where you would have: __setup("foo", x86_foo_func...); The problem is that "noxsave" actually _matches_ "noxsaves" in the same way that "foo" matches "foo=bar". If you boot an old kernel that does not know about "noxsaves" with "noxsaves" on the command line, it will interpret the argument as "noxsave", which is not what you want at all. This makes the "noxsave" handler only return success when it finds an *exact* match. [ tglx: We really need to make __setup() more robust. ] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: x86@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141111220133.FE053984@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86_64, entry: Filter RFLAGS.NT on entry from userspace

2014-11-14T18:10:23Z

commit 8c7aa698baca5e8f1ba9edb68081f1e7a1abf455 upstream. The NT flag doesn't do anything in long mode other than causing IRET to #GP. Oddly, CPL3 code can still set NT using popf. Entry via hardware or software interrupt clears NT automatically, so the only relevant entries are fast syscalls. If user code causes kernel code to run with NT set, then there's at least some (small) chance that it could cause trouble. For example, user code could cause a call to EFI code with NT set, and who knows what would happen? Apparently some games on Wine sometimes do this (!), and, if an IRET return happens, they will segfault. That segfault cannot be handled, because signal delivery fails, too. This patch programs the CPU to clear NT on entry via SYSCALL (both 32-bit and 64-bit, by my reading of the AMD APM), and it clears NT in software on entry via SYSENTER. To save a few cycles, this borrows a trick from Jan Beulich in Xen: it checks whether NT is set before trying to clear it. As a result, it seems to have very little effect on SYSENTER performance on my machine. There's another minor bug fix in here: it looks like the CFI annotations were wrong if CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n. Testers beware: on Xen, SYSENTER with NT set turns into a GPF. I haven't touched anything on 32-bit kernels. The syscall mask change comes from a variant of this patch by Anish Bhatt. Note to stable maintainers: there is no known security issue here. A misguided program can set NT and cause the kernel to try and fail to deliver SIGSEGV, crashing the program. This patch fixes Far Cry on Wine: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33275 Reported-by: Anish Bhatt Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/395749a5d39a29bd3e4b35899cf3a3c1340e5595.1412189265.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'x86-xsave-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-08-14T00:20:04Z

Pull x86/xsave changes from Peter Anvin: "This is a patchset to support the XSAVES instruction required to support context switch of supervisor-only features in upcoming silicon. This patchset missed the 3.16 merge window, which is why it is based on 3.15-rc7" * 'x86-xsave-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, xsave: Add forgotten inline annotation x86/xsaves: Clean up code in xstate offsets computation in xsave area x86/xsave: Make it clear that the XSAVE macros use (%edi)/(%rdi) Define kernel API to get address of each state in xsave area x86/xsaves: Enable xsaves/xrstors x86/xsaves: Call booting time xsaves and xrstors in setup_init_fpu_buf x86/xsaves: Save xstate to task's xsave area in __save_fpu during booting time x86/xsaves: Add xsaves and xrstors support for booting time x86/xsaves: Clear reserved bits in xsave header x86/xsaves: Use xsave/xrstor for saving and restoring user space context x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors for context switch x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors to save and restore xsave area x86/xsaves: Define a macro for handling xsave/xrstor instruction fault x86/xsaves: Define macros for xsave instructions x86/xsaves: Change compacted format xsave area header x86/alternative: Add alternative_input_2 to support alternative with two features and input x86/xsaves: Add a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors

Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-08-05T00:15:45Z

Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main change in this cycle is the rework of the TLB range flushing code, to simplify, fix and consolidate the code. By Dave Hansen" * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mm: Set TLB flush tunable to sane value (33) x86/mm: New tunable for single vs full TLB flush x86/mm: Add tracepoints for TLB flushes x86/mm: Unify remote INVLPG code x86/mm: Fix missed global TLB flush stat x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing x86/mm: Clean up the TLB flushing code x86/smep: Be more informative when signalling an SMEP fault

x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing

2014-07-31T15:48:50Z

I think the flush_tlb_mm_range() code that tries to tune the flush sizes based on the CPU needs to get ripped out for several reasons: 1. It is obviously buggy. It uses mm->total_vm to judge the task's footprint in the TLB. It should certainly be using some measure of RSS, *NOT* ->total_vm since only resident memory can populate the TLB. 2. Haswell, and several other CPUs are missing from the intel_tlb_flushall_shift_set() function. Thus, it has been demonstrated to bitrot quickly in practice. 3. It is plain wrong in my vm: [ 0.037444] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0 [ 0.037444] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0 [ 0.037444] tlb_flushall_shift: 6 Which leads to it to never use invlpg. 4. The assumptions about TLB refill costs are wrong: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337782555-8088-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com (more on this in later patches) 5. I can not reproduce the original data: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/59 I believe the sample times were too short. Running the benchmark in a loop yields times that vary quite a bit. Note that this leaves us with a static ceiling of 1 page. This is a conservative, dumb setting, and will be revised in a later patch. This also removes the code which attempts to predict whether we are flushing data or instructions. We expect instruction flushes to be relatively rare and not worth tuning for explicitly. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154055.ABC88E89@viggo.jf.intel.com Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

Merge tag 'v3.16-rc1' into x86/cpufeature

2014-06-18T22:26:19Z

Linux 3.16-rc1 Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-06-13T02:18:49Z

Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "A second round of perf updates: - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by Masami Hiramatsu. - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case fixes and robustization work. - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo et al: * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim) * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits) perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def to ->defparam, minor comment updates perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND' uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register() perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context() perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error perf record: Fix poll return value propagation perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target ...

x86/xsaves: Add a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors

2014-05-29T21:24:52Z

This patch adds a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors feature. The kernel will fall back to use xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restor xstates. By using this parameter, xsave area occupies more memory because standard form of xsave area in xsaveopt/xrstor occupies more memory than compacted form of xsave area. This patch adds a description of the kernel parameter noxsaveopt in doc. The code to support the parameter noxsaveopt has been in the kernel before. This patch just adds the description of this parameter in the doc. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86/xsaves: Detect xsaves/xrstors feature

2014-05-29T21:24:28Z

Detect the xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv, and xsaves features in processor extended state enumberation sub-leaf (eax=0x0d, ecx=1): Bit 00: XSAVEOPT is available Bit 01: Supports XSAVEC and the compacted form of XRSTOR if set Bit 02: Supports XGETBV with ECX = 1 if set Bit 03: Supports XSAVES/XRSTORS and IA32_XSS if set The above features are defined in the new word 10 in cpu features. The IA32_XSS MSR (index DA0H) contains a state-component bitmap that specifies the state components that software has enabled xsaves and xrstors to manage. If the bit corresponding to a state component is clear in XCR0 | IA32_XSS, xsaves and xrstors will not operate on that state component, regardless of the value of the instruction mask. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, vdso: Move the vvar and hpet mappings next to the 64-bit vDSO

2014-05-05T20:19:01Z

This makes the 64-bit and x32 vdsos use the same mechanism as the 32-bit vdso. Most of the churn is deleting all the old fixmap code. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8af87023f57f6bb96ec8d17fce3f88018195b49b.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin