From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: context switch avoid cpabort
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 01:36:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170608153609.19217-4-npiggin@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170608153609.19217-1-npiggin@gmail.com>
The ISA v3.0B copy-paste facility only requires cpabort when switching
to a process that has foreign real addresses mapped (direct access to
accelerators), to clear a potential copy buffer filled by a previous
thread. There is no accelerator driver implemented yet, so cpabort can
be removed. It can be be re-added when a driver is implemented.
POWER9 DD1 requires the copy buffer to always be cleared on context
switch, but if accelerators are not in use, then an unpaired copy from
a dummy region is sufficient to clear data out of the copy buffer.
This increases context switch performance by about 5% on POWER9.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h | 8 ++++----
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 9 ---------
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
index 3a8d278e7421..3b6bbf5a8683 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
@@ -189,8 +189,7 @@
/* sorted alphabetically */
#define PPC_INST_BHRBE 0x7c00025c
#define PPC_INST_CLRBHRB 0x7c00035c
-#define PPC_INST_COPY 0x7c00060c
-#define PPC_INST_COPY_FIRST 0x7c20060c
+#define PPC_INST_COPY 0x7c20060c
#define PPC_INST_CP_ABORT 0x7c00068c
#define PPC_INST_DCBA 0x7c0005ec
#define PPC_INST_DCBA_MASK 0xfc0007fe
@@ -223,8 +222,7 @@
#define PPC_INST_MSGSNDP 0x7c00011c
#define PPC_INST_MTTMR 0x7c0003dc
#define PPC_INST_NOP 0x60000000
-#define PPC_INST_PASTE 0x7c00070c
-#define PPC_INST_PASTE_LAST 0x7c20070d
+#define PPC_INST_PASTE 0x7c20070d
#define PPC_INST_POPCNTB 0x7c0000f4
#define PPC_INST_POPCNTB_MASK 0xfc0007fe
#define PPC_INST_POPCNTD 0x7c0003f4
@@ -392,6 +390,8 @@
/* Deal with instructions that older assemblers aren't aware of */
#define PPC_CP_ABORT stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_CP_ABORT)
+#define PPC_COPY(a, b) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_COPY | \
+ ___PPC_RA(a) | ___PPC_RB(b))
#define PPC_DCBAL(a, b) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_DCBAL | \
__PPC_RA(a) | __PPC_RB(b))
#define PPC_DCBZL(a, b) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_DCBZL | \
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index fb143859cc68..da9486e2fd89 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -536,15 +536,6 @@ _GLOBAL(_switch)
* which contains larx/stcx, which will clear any reservation
* of the task being switched.
*/
-
-BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
-/*
- * A cp_abort (copy paste abort) here ensures that when context switching, a
- * copy from one process can't leak into the paste of another.
- */
- PPC_CP_ABORT
-END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
-
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
/* Cancel all explict user streams as they will have no use after context
* switch and will stop the HW from creating streams itself
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 45faa9a32a01..6273b5d5baec 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -1137,6 +1137,11 @@ static inline void restore_sprs(struct thread_struct *old_thread,
#endif
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
+#define CP_SIZE 128
+static const u8 dummy_copy_buffer[CP_SIZE] __attribute__((aligned(CP_SIZE)));
+#endif
+
struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *new)
{
@@ -1226,8 +1231,28 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
batch->active = 1;
}
- if (current_thread_info()->task->thread.regs)
+ if (current_thread_info()->task->thread.regs) {
restore_math(current_thread_info()->task->thread.regs);
+
+ /*
+ * The copy-paste buffer can only store into foreign real
+ * addresses, so unprivileged processes can not see the
+ * data or use it in any way unless they have foreign real
+ * mappings. We don't have a VAS driver that allocates those
+ * yet, so no cpabort is required.
+ */
+ if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_POWER9_DD1)) {
+ /*
+ * DD1 allows paste into normal system memory, so we
+ * do an unpaired copy here to clear the buffer and
+ * prevent a covert channel being set up.
+ *
+ * cpabort is not used because it is quite expensive.
+ */
+ asm volatile(PPC_COPY(%0, %1)
+ : : "r"(dummy_copy_buffer), "r"(0));
+ }
+ }
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64 */
return last;
--
2.11.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-08 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-08 15:36 [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/64s: context switch leave interrupts hard enabled for radix Nicholas Piggin
2017-06-08 15:36 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64: context switch avoid reservation-clearing instruction Nicholas Piggin
2017-06-14 13:07 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-08 15:36 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/64: context switch an hwsync instruction can be avoided Nicholas Piggin
2017-06-08 20:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-06-08 15:36 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2017-06-19 12:25 ` [1/4] powerpc/64s: context switch leave interrupts hard enabled for radix Michael Ellerman
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