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AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel
page table isolation feature protects against. The AMD microarchitecture
does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that
access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode
when that access would result in a page fault.
Disable page table isolation by default on AMD processors by not setting
the X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE feature, which controls whether X86_FEATURE_PTI
is set.
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171227054354.20369.94587.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
Pull x86 page table isolation updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the final set of enabling page table isolation on x86:
- Infrastructure patches for handling the extra page tables.
- Patches which map the various bits and pieces which are required to
get in and out of user space into the user space visible page
tables.
- The required changes to have CR3 switching in the entry/exit code.
- Optimizations for the CR3 switching along with documentation how
the ASID/PCID mechanism works.
- Updates to dump pagetables to cover the user space page tables for
W+X scans and extra debugfs files to analyze both the kernel and
the user space visible page tables
The whole functionality is compile time controlled via a config switch
and can be turned on/off on the command line as well"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
x86/ldt: Make the LDT mapping RO
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Allow dumping current pagetables
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Check user space page table for WX pages
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Add page table directory to the debugfs VFS hierarchy
x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig
x86/dumpstack: Indicate in Oops whether PTI is configured and enabled
x86/mm: Clarify the whole ASID/kernel PCID/user PCID naming
x86/mm: Use INVPCID for __native_flush_tlb_single()
x86/mm: Optimize RESTORE_CR3
x86/mm: Use/Fix PCID to optimize user/kernel switches
x86/mm: Abstract switching CR3
x86/mm: Allow flushing for future ASID switches
x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed
x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on
x86/mm/64: Make a full PGD-entry size hole in the memory map
x86/events/intel/ds: Map debug buffers in cpu_entry_area
x86/cpu_entry_area: Add debugstore entries to cpu_entry_area
x86/mm/pti: Map ESPFIX into user space
x86/mm/pti: Share entry text PMD
x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary
...
Pull x86 PTI preparatory patches from Thomas Gleixner:
"Todays Advent calendar window contains twentyfour easy to digest
patches. The original plan was to have twenty three matching the date,
but a late fixup made that moot.
- Move the cpu_entry_area mapping out of the fixmap into a separate
address space. That's necessary because the fixmap becomes too big
with NRCPUS=8192 and this caused already subtle and hard to
diagnose failures.
The top most patch is fresh from today and cures a brain slip of
that tall grumpy german greybeard, who ignored the intricacies of
32bit wraparounds.
- Limit the number of CPUs on 32bit to 64. That's insane big already,
but at least it's small enough to prevent address space issues with
the cpu_entry_area map, which have been observed and debugged with
the fixmap code
- A few TLB flush fixes in various places plus documentation which of
the TLB functions should be used for what.
- Rename the SYSENTER stack to CPU_ENTRY_AREA stack as it is used for
more than sysenter now and keeping the name makes backtraces
confusing.
- Prevent LDT inheritance on exec() by moving it to arch_dup_mmap(),
which is only invoked on fork().
- Make vysycall more robust.
- A few fixes and cleanups of the debug_pagetables code. Check
PAGE_PRESENT instead of checking the PTE for 0 and a cleanup of the
C89 initialization of the address hint array which already was out
of sync with the index enums.
- Move the ESPFIX init to a different place to prepare for PTI.
- Several code moves with no functional change to make PTI
integration simpler and header files less convoluted.
- Documentation fixes and clarifications"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/cpu_entry_area: Prevent wraparound in setup_cpu_entry_area_ptes() on 32bit
init: Invoke init_espfix_bsp() from mm_init()
x86/cpu_entry_area: Move it out of the fixmap
x86/cpu_entry_area: Move it to a separate unit
x86/mm: Create asm/invpcid.h
x86/mm: Put MMU to hardware ASID translation in one place
x86/mm: Remove hard-coded ASID limit checks
x86/mm: Move the CR3 construction functions to tlbflush.h
x86/mm: Add comments to clarify which TLB-flush functions are supposed to flush what
x86/mm: Remove superfluous barriers
x86/mm: Use __flush_tlb_one() for kernel memory
x86/microcode: Dont abuse the TLB-flush interface
x86/uv: Use the right TLB-flush API
x86/entry: Rename SYSENTER_stack to CPU_ENTRY_AREA_entry_stack
x86/doc: Remove obvious weirdnesses from the x86 MM layout documentation
x86/mm/64: Improve the memory map documentation
x86/ldt: Prevent LDT inheritance on exec
x86/ldt: Rework locking
arch, mm: Allow arch_dup_mmap() to fail
x86/vsyscall/64: Warn and fail vsyscall emulation in NATIVE mode
...
If the kernel oopses while on the trampoline stack, it will print
"<SYSENTER>" even if SYSENTER is not involved. That is rather confusing.
The "SYSENTER" stack is used for a lot more than SYSENTER now. Give it a
better string to display in stack dumps, and rename the kernel code to
match.
Also move the 32-bit code over to the new naming even though it still uses
the entry stack only for SYSENTER.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 syscall entry code changes for PTI from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes here are Andy Lutomirski's changes to switch the
x86-64 entry code to use the 'per CPU entry trampoline stack'. This,
besides helping fix KASLR leaks (the pending Page Table Isolation
(PTI) work), also robustifies the x86 entry code"
* 'WIP.x86-pti.entry-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
x86/cpufeatures: Make CPU bugs sticky
x86/paravirt: Provide a way to check for hypervisors
x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single
x86/entry/64: Make cpu_entry_area.tss read-only
x86/entry: Clean up the SYSENTER_stack code
x86/entry/64: Remove the SYSENTER stack canary
x86/entry/64: Move the IST stacks into struct cpu_entry_area
x86/entry/64: Create a per-CPU SYSCALL entry trampoline
x86/entry/64: Return to userspace from the trampoline stack
x86/entry/64: Use a per-CPU trampoline stack for IDT entries
x86/espfix/64: Stop assuming that pt_regs is on the entry stack
x86/entry/64: Separate cpu_current_top_of_stack from TSS.sp0
x86/entry: Remap the TSS into the CPU entry area
x86/entry: Move SYSENTER_stack to the beginning of struct tss_struct
x86/dumpstack: Handle stack overflow on all stacks
x86/entry: Fix assumptions that the HW TSS is at the beginning of cpu_tss
x86/kasan/64: Teach KASAN about the cpu_entry_area
x86/mm/fixmap: Generalize the GDT fixmap mechanism, introduce struct cpu_entry_area
x86/entry/gdt: Put per-CPU GDT remaps in ascending order
x86/dumpstack: Add get_stack_info() support for the SYSENTER stack
...
Handling SYSCALL is tricky: the SYSCALL handler is entered with every
single register (except FLAGS), including RSP, live. It somehow needs
to set RSP to point to a valid stack, which means it needs to save the
user RSP somewhere and find its own stack pointer. The canonical way
to do this is with SWAPGS, which lets us access percpu data using the
%gs prefix.
With PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION-like pagetable switching, this is
problematic. Without a scratch register, switching CR3 is impossible, so
%gs-based percpu memory would need to be mapped in the user pagetables.
Doing that without information leaks is difficult or impossible.
Instead, use a different sneaky trick. Map a copy of the first part
of the SYSCALL asm at a different address for each CPU. Now RIP
varies depending on the CPU, so we can use RIP-relative memory access
to access percpu memory. By putting the relevant information (one
scratch slot and the stack address) at a constant offset relative to
RIP, we can make SYSCALL work without relying on %gs.
A nice thing about this approach is that we can easily switch it on
and off if we want pagetable switching to be configurable.
The compat variant of SYSCALL doesn't have this problem in the first
place -- there are plenty of scratch registers, since we don't care
about preserving r8-r15. This patch therefore doesn't touch SYSCALL32
at all.
This patch actually seems to be a small speedup. With this patch,
SYSCALL touches an extra cache line and an extra virtual page, but
the pipeline no longer stalls waiting for SWAPGS. It seems that, at
least in a tight loop, the latter outweights the former.
Thanks to David Laight for an optimization tip.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.403607157@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
With a followon patch we want to make clearcpuid affect the XSAVE
configuration. But xsave is currently initialized before arguments
are parsed. Move the clearcpuid= parsing into the special
early xsave argument parsing code.
Since clearcpuid= contains a = we need to keep the old __setup
around as a dummy, otherwise it would end up as a environment
variable in init's environment.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013215645.23166-4-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
cpu_init() is weird: it's called rather late (after early
identification and after most MMU state is initialized) on the boot
CPU but is called extremely early (before identification) on secondary
CPUs. It's called just late enough on the boot CPU that its CR4 value
isn't propagated to mmu_cr4_features.
Even if we put CR4.PCIDE into mmu_cr4_features, we'd hit two
problems. First, we'd crash in the trampoline code. That's
fixable, and I tried that. It turns out that mmu_cr4_features is
totally ignored by secondary_start_64(), though, so even with the
trampoline code fixed, it wouldn't help.
This means that we don't currently have CR4.PCIDE reliably initialized
before we start playing with cpu_tlbstate. This is very fragile and
tends to cause boot failures if I make even small changes to the TLB
handling code.
Make it more robust: initialize CR4.PCIDE earlier on the boot CPU
and propagate it to secondary CPUs in start_secondary().
( Yes, this is ugly. I think we should have improved mmu_cr4_features
to actually control CR4 during secondary bootup, but that would be
fairly intrusive at this stage. )
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 660da7c922 ("x86/mm: Enable CR4.PCIDE on supported systems")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
While debugging a problem, I thought that using
cr4_set_bits_and_update_boot() to restore CR4.PCIDE would be
helpful. It turns out to be counterproductive.
Add a comment documenting how this works.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When Linux brings a CPU down and back up, it switches to init_mm and then
loads swapper_pg_dir into CR3. With PCID enabled, this has the side effect
of masking off the ASID bits in CR3.
This can result in some confusion in the TLB handling code. If we
bring a CPU down and back up with any ASID other than 0, we end up
with the wrong ASID active on the CPU after resume. This could
cause our internal state to become corrupt, although major
corruption is unlikely because init_mm doesn't have any user pages.
More obviously, if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y, we'll trip over an assertion
in the next context switch. The result of *that* is a failure to
resume from suspend with probability 1 - 1/6^(cpus-1).
Fix it by reinitializing cpu_tlbstate on resume and CPU bringup.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Fixes: 10af6235e0 ("x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 apic updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update provides:
- Cleanup of the IDT management including the removal of the extra
tracing IDT. A first step to cleanup the vector management code.
- The removal of the paravirt op adjust_exception_frame. This is a
XEN specific issue, but merged through this branch to avoid nasty
merge collisions
- Prevent dmesg spam about the TSC DEADLINE bug, when the CPU has
disabled the TSC DEADLINE timer in CPUID.
- Adjust a debug message in the ioapic code to print out the
information correctly"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
x86/idt: Fix the X86_TRAP_BP gate
x86/xen: Get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame
x86/eisa: Add missing include
x86/idt: Remove superfluous ALIGNment
x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata" on CPUs without the feature
x86/idt: Remove the tracing IDT leftovers
x86/idt: Hide set_intr_gate()
x86/idt: Simplify alloc_intr_gate()
x86/idt: Deinline setup functions
x86/idt: Remove unused functions/inlines
x86/idt: Move interrupt gate initialization to IDT code
x86/idt: Move APIC gate initialization to tables
x86/idt: Move regular trap init to tables
x86/idt: Move IST stack based traps to table init
x86/idt: Move debug stack init to table based
x86/idt: Switch early trap init to IDT tables
x86/idt: Prepare for table based init
x86/idt: Move early IDT setup out of 32-bit asm
x86/idt: Move early IDT handler setup to IDT code
x86/idt: Consolidate IDT invalidation
...
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A fix for KVM's scheduler clock which (erroneously) was always marked
unstable, a fix for RT/DL load balancing, plus latency fixes"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/clock, x86/tsc: Rework the x86 'unstable' sched_clock() interface
sched/core: Fix pick_next_task() for RT,DL
sched/fair: Make select_idle_cpu() more aggressive
Wanpeng Li reported that since the following commit:
acb04058de ("sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash")
... KVM always runs with unstable sched-clock even though KVM's
kvm_clock _is_ stable.
The problem is that we've tied clear_sched_clock_stable() to the TSC
state, and overlooked that sched_clock() is a paravirt function.
Solve this by doing two things:
- tie the sched_clock() stable state more clearly to the TSC stable
state for the normal (!paravirt) case.
- only call clear_sched_clock_stable() when we mark TSC unstable
when we use native_sched_clock().
The first means we can actually run with stable sched_clock in more
situations then before, which is good. And since commit:
12907fbb1a ("sched/clock, clocksource: Add optional cs::mark_unstable() method")
... this should be reliable. Since any detection of TSC fail now results
in marking the TSC unstable.
Reported-by: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: acb04058de ("sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/clock.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Apart from adding the helper function itself, the rest of the kernel is
converted mechanically using:
git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)->mm_count);/mmgrab\(\1\);/'
git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)\.mm_count);/mmgrab\(\&\1\);/'
This is needed for a later patch that hooks into the helper, but might
be a worthwhile cleanup on its own.
(Michal Hocko provided most of the kerneldoc comment.)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161218123229.22952-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 fpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes relate to fixes between (lack of) CPUID and FPU
detection that should only affect old or weird CPUs, by Andy
Lutomirski"
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu: Fix the "Giving up, no FPU found" test
x86/fpu: Fix CPUID-less FPU detection
x86/fpu: Fix "x86/fpu: Legacy x87 FPU detected" message
x86/cpu: Re-apply forced caps every time CPU caps are re-read
x86/cpu: Factor out application of forced CPU caps
x86/cpu: Add X86_FEATURE_CPUID
x86/fpu/xstate: Move XSAVES state init to a function
Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were related to enable ring-3
MONITOR/MWAIT instructions support on supported CPUs, by Grzegorz
Andrejczuk and Piotr Luc"
* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpufeature: Move RING3MWAIT feature to avoid conflicts
x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Mill
x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Landing
x86/cpufeature: Add RING3MWAIT to CPU features
x86/elf: Add HWCAP2 to expose ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT
x86/msr: Add MSR_MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES and RING3MWAIT bit
x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ feature
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this (fairly busy) cycle were:
- There was a class of scheduler bugs related to forgetting to update
the rq-clock timestamp which can cause weird and hard to debug
problems, so there's a new debug facility for this: which uncovered
a whole lot of bugs which convinced us that we want to keep the
debug facility.
(Peter Zijlstra, Matt Fleming)
- Various cputime related updates: eliminate cputime and use u64
nanoseconds directly, simplify and improve the arch interfaces,
implement delayed accounting more widely, etc. - (Frederic
Weisbecker)
- Move code around for better structure plus cleanups (Ingo Molnar)
- Move IO schedule accounting deeper into the scheduler plus related
changes to improve the situation (Tejun Heo)
- ... plus a round of sched/rt and sched/deadline fixes, plus other
fixes, updats and cleanups"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (85 commits)
sched/core: Remove unlikely() annotation from sched_move_task()
sched/autogroup: Rename auto_group.[ch] to autogroup.[ch]
sched/topology: Split out scheduler topology code from core.c into topology.c
sched/core: Remove unnecessary #include headers
sched/rq_clock: Consolidate the ordering of the rq_clock methods
delayacct: Include <uapi/linux/taskstats.h>
sched/core: Clean up comments
sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds
sched/clock: Add dummy clear_sched_clock_stable() stub function
sched/cputime: Remove generic asm headers
sched/cputime: Remove unused nsec_to_cputime()
s390, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
powerpc, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
s390, sched/cputime: Make arch_cpu_idle_time() to return nsecs
ia64, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
ia64: Convert vtime to use nsec units directly
ia64, sched/cputime: Move the nsecs based cputime headers to the last arch using it
sched/cputime: Remove jiffies based cputime
sched/cputime, vtime: Return nsecs instead of cputime_t to account
sched/cputime: Complete nsec conversion of tick based accounting
...
Commit:
a33d331761 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Fix Bulldozer topology")
restored the initial approach we had with the Fam15h topology of
enumerating CU (Compute Unit) threads as cores. And this is still
correct - they're beefier than HT threads but still have some
shared functionality.
Our current approach has a problem with the Mad Max Steam game, for
example. Yves Dionne reported a certain "choppiness" while playing on
v4.9.5.
That problem stems most likely from the fact that the CU threads share
resources within one CU and when we schedule to a thread of a different
compute unit, this incurs latency due to migrating the working set to a
different CU through the caches.
When the thread siblings mask mirrors that aspect of the CUs and
threads, the scheduler pays attention to it and tries to schedule within
one CU first. Which takes care of the latency, of course.
Reported-by: Yves Dionne <yves.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170205105022.8705-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Introduce ELF_HWCAP2 variable for x86 and reserve its bit 0 to expose the
ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT.
HWCAP variables contain bitmasks which can be used by userspace
applications to detect which instruction sets are supported by CPU. On x86
architecture information about CPU capabilities can be checked via CPUID
instructions, unfortunately presence of ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature cannot
be checked this way. ELF_HWCAP cannot be used as well, because on x86 it is
set to CPUID[1].EDX which means that all bits are reserved there.
HWCAP2 approach was chosen because it reuses existing solution present
in other architectures, so only minor modifications are required to the
kernel and userspace applications. When ELF_HWCAP2 is defined
kernel maps it to AT_HWCAP2 during the start of the application.
This way the ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature can be detected using getauxval()
API in a simple and fast manner. ELF_HWCAP2 type is u32 to be consistent
with x86 ELF_HWCAP type.
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Andrejczuk <grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com>
Cc: Piotr.Luc@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484918557-15481-3-git-send-email-grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
