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Linus Torvalds 720c857907 Support for x86 Fast Return and Event Delivery (FRED):
FRED is a replacement for IDT event delivery on x86 and addresses most of
 the technical nightmares which IDT exposes:
 
  1) Exception cause registers like CR2 need to be manually preserved in
     nested exception scenarios.
 
  2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is suboptimal for nested exceptions
     as the interrupt stack mechanism rewinds the stack on each entry which
     requires a massive effort in the low level entry of #NMI code to handle
     this.
 
  3) No hardware distinction between entry from kernel or from user which
     makes establishing kernel context more complex than it needs to be
     especially for unconditionally nestable exceptions like NMI.
 
  4) NMI nesting caused by IRET unconditionally reenabling NMIs, which is a
     problem when the perf NMI takes a fault when collecting a stack trace.
 
  5) Partial restore of ESP when returning to a 16-bit segment
 
  6) Limitation of the vector space which can cause vector exhaustion on
     large systems.
 
  7) Inability to differentiate NMI sources
 
 FRED addresses these shortcomings by:
 
  1) An extended exception stack frame which the CPU uses to save exception
     cause registers. This ensures that the meta information for each
     exception is preserved on stack and avoids the extra complexity of
     preserving it in software.
 
  2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is non-rewinding if a nested
     exception uses the currently interrupt stack.
 
  3) The entry points for kernel and user context are separate and GS BASE
     handling which is required to establish kernel context for per CPU
     variable access is done in hardware.
 
  4) NMIs are now nesting protected. They are only reenabled on the return
     from NMI.
 
  5) FRED guarantees full restore of ESP
 
  6) FRED does not put a limitation on the vector space by design because it
     uses a central entry points for kernel and user space and the CPUstores
     the entry type (exception, trap, interrupt, syscall) on the entry stack
     along with the vector number. The entry code has to demultiplex this
     information, but this removes the vector space restriction.
 
     The first hardware implementations will still have the current
     restricted vector space because lifting this limitation requires
     further changes to the local APIC.
 
  7) FRED stores the vector number and meta information on stack which
     allows having more than one NMI vector in future hardware when the
     required local APIC changes are in place.
 
 The series implements the initial FRED support by:
 
  - Reworking the existing entry and IDT handling infrastructure to
    accomodate for the alternative entry mechanism.
 
  - Expanding the stack frame to accomodate for the extra 16 bytes FRED
    requires to store context and meta information
 
  - Providing FRED specific C entry points for events which have information
    pushed to the extended stack frame, e.g. #PF and #DB.
 
  - Providing FRED specific C entry points for #NMI and #MCE
 
  - Implementing the FRED specific ASM entry points and the C code to
    demultiplex the events
 
  - Providing detection and initialization mechanisms and the necessary
    tweaks in context switching, GS BASE handling etc.
 
 The FRED integration aims for maximum code reuse vs. the existing IDT
 implementation to the extent possible and the deviation in hot paths like
 context switching are handled with alternatives to minimalize the
 impact. The low level entry and exit paths are seperate due to the extended
 stack frame and the hardware based GS BASE swichting and therefore have no
 impact on IDT based systems.
 
 It has been extensively tested on existing systems and on the FRED
 simulation and as of now there are know outstanding problems.
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Merge tag 'x86-fred-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 FRED support from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Support for x86 Fast Return and Event Delivery (FRED).

  FRED is a replacement for IDT event delivery on x86 and addresses most
  of the technical nightmares which IDT exposes:

   1) Exception cause registers like CR2 need to be manually preserved
      in nested exception scenarios.

   2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is suboptimal for nested
      exceptions as the interrupt stack mechanism rewinds the stack on
      each entry which requires a massive effort in the low level entry
      of #NMI code to handle this.

   3) No hardware distinction between entry from kernel or from user
      which makes establishing kernel context more complex than it needs
      to be especially for unconditionally nestable exceptions like NMI.

   4) NMI nesting caused by IRET unconditionally reenabling NMIs, which
      is a problem when the perf NMI takes a fault when collecting a
      stack trace.

   5) Partial restore of ESP when returning to a 16-bit segment

   6) Limitation of the vector space which can cause vector exhaustion
      on large systems.

   7) Inability to differentiate NMI sources

  FRED addresses these shortcomings by:

   1) An extended exception stack frame which the CPU uses to save
      exception cause registers. This ensures that the meta information
      for each exception is preserved on stack and avoids the extra
      complexity of preserving it in software.

   2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is non-rewinding if a nested
      exception uses the currently interrupt stack.

   3) The entry points for kernel and user context are separate and GS
      BASE handling which is required to establish kernel context for
      per CPU variable access is done in hardware.

   4) NMIs are now nesting protected. They are only reenabled on the
      return from NMI.

   5) FRED guarantees full restore of ESP

   6) FRED does not put a limitation on the vector space by design
      because it uses a central entry points for kernel and user space
      and the CPUstores the entry type (exception, trap, interrupt,
      syscall) on the entry stack along with the vector number. The
      entry code has to demultiplex this information, but this removes
      the vector space restriction.

      The first hardware implementations will still have the current
      restricted vector space because lifting this limitation requires
      further changes to the local APIC.

   7) FRED stores the vector number and meta information on stack which
      allows having more than one NMI vector in future hardware when the
      required local APIC changes are in place.

  The series implements the initial FRED support by:

   - Reworking the existing entry and IDT handling infrastructure to
     accomodate for the alternative entry mechanism.

   - Expanding the stack frame to accomodate for the extra 16 bytes FRED
     requires to store context and meta information

   - Providing FRED specific C entry points for events which have
     information pushed to the extended stack frame, e.g. #PF and #DB.

   - Providing FRED specific C entry points for #NMI and #MCE

   - Implementing the FRED specific ASM entry points and the C code to
     demultiplex the events

   - Providing detection and initialization mechanisms and the necessary
     tweaks in context switching, GS BASE handling etc.

  The FRED integration aims for maximum code reuse vs the existing IDT
  implementation to the extent possible and the deviation in hot paths
  like context switching are handled with alternatives to minimalize the
  impact. The low level entry and exit paths are seperate due to the
  extended stack frame and the hardware based GS BASE swichting and
  therefore have no impact on IDT based systems.

  It has been extensively tested on existing systems and on the FRED
  simulation and as of now there are no outstanding problems"

* tag 'x86-fred-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  x86/fred: Fix init_task thread stack pointer initialization
  MAINTAINERS: Add a maintainer entry for FRED
  x86/fred: Fix a build warning with allmodconfig due to 'inline' failing to inline properly
  x86/fred: Invoke FRED initialization code to enable FRED
  x86/fred: Add FRED initialization functions
  x86/syscall: Split IDT syscall setup code into idt_syscall_init()
  KVM: VMX: Call fred_entry_from_kvm() for IRQ/NMI handling
  x86/entry: Add fred_entry_from_kvm() for VMX to handle IRQ/NMI
  x86/entry/calling: Allow PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS being used beyond actual entry code
  x86/fred: Fixup fault on ERETU by jumping to fred_entrypoint_user
  x86/fred: Let ret_from_fork_asm() jmp to asm_fred_exit_user when FRED is enabled
  x86/traps: Add sysvec_install() to install a system interrupt handler
  x86/fred: FRED entry/exit and dispatch code
  x86/fred: Add a machine check entry stub for FRED
  x86/fred: Add a NMI entry stub for FRED
  x86/fred: Add a debug fault entry stub for FRED
  x86/idtentry: Incorporate definitions/declarations of the FRED entries
  x86/fred: Make exc_page_fault() work for FRED
  x86/fred: Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task
  x86/fred: No ESPFIX needed when FRED is enabled
  ...
2024-03-11 16:00:17 -07:00
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accounting
arch Support for x86 Fast Return and Event Delivery (FRED): 2024-03-11 16:00:17 -07:00
bootconfig
bpf bpfilter: remove bpfilter 2024-01-04 10:23:10 -08:00
build perf cs-etm: Bump minimum OpenCSD version to ensure a bugfix is present 2023-11-27 10:21:27 -03:00
certs
cgroup samples: introduce new samples subdir for cgroup 2023-12-10 16:51:54 -08:00
counter tools/counter: Remove unneeded semicolon 2023-12-20 11:43:31 -05:00
crypto crypto: tcrypt - add script tcrypt_speed_compare.py 2023-12-29 11:25:55 +08:00
debugging
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firewire
firmware
gpio
hv
iio iio: add modifiers for A and B ultraviolet light 2023-12-04 13:57:24 +00:00
include work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-09 15:57:48 -08:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib perf tools improvements and fixes for v6.8: 2024-01-19 14:25:23 -08:00
memory-model
mm
net/ynl tools: ynl: fix handling of multiple mcast groups 2024-02-28 15:24:34 -08:00
objtool x86/objtool: Teach objtool about ERET[US] 2024-01-31 22:00:30 +01:00
pci
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perf perf evlist: Fix evlist__new_default() for > 1 core PMU 2024-01-30 11:40:28 -03:00
power tools cpupower bench: Override CFLAGS assignments 2024-01-21 16:57:51 -07:00
rcu
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testing A large set of updates and features for timers and timekeeping: 2024-03-11 14:38:26 -07:00
thermal tools/thermal/tmon: Fix compilation warning for wrong format 2024-01-02 09:33:19 +01:00
time
tracing tools/rtla: Exit with EXIT_SUCCESS when help is invoked 2024-02-12 10:59:09 +01:00
usb
verification tools/rv: Fix curr_reactor uninitialized variable 2024-02-12 09:58:36 +01:00
virtio
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workqueue workqueue: Implement BH workqueues to eventually replace tasklets 2024-02-04 11:28:06 -10:00
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