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From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: [RESEND PATCH v4 4/9] arm64: Mask all exceptions during kernel_exit
Date: Thu,  2 Nov 2017 12:12:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171102121242.8925-5-james.morse@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171102121242.8925-1-james.morse@arm.com>

To take RAS Exceptions as quickly as possible we need to keep SError
unmasked as much as possible. We need to mask it during kernel_exit
as taking an error from this code will overwrite the exception-registers.

Adding a naked 'disable_daif' to kernel_exit causes a performance problem
for micro-benchmarks that do no real work, (e.g. calling getpid() in a
loop). This is because the ret_to_user loop has already masked IRQs so
that the TIF_WORK_MASK thread flags can't change underneath it, adding
disable_daif is an additional self-synchronising operation.

In the future, the RAS APEI code may need to modify the TIF_WORK_MASK
flags from an SError, in which case the ret_to_user loop must mask SError
while it examines the flags.

Disable all exceptions for return to EL1. For return to EL0 get the
ret_to_user loop to leave all exceptions masked once it has done its
work, this avoids an extra pstate-write.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

==
Changes since v3:
* swapped verb/daif word-order.
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S  | 10 +++++-----
 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c |  8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index e1c59d4008a8..f7d7bf9d76e7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
 
 	.macro	kernel_exit, el
 	.if	\el != 0
+	disable_daif
+
 	/* Restore the task's original addr_limit. */
 	ldr	x20, [sp, #S_ORIG_ADDR_LIMIT]
 	str	x20, [tsk, #TSK_TI_ADDR_LIMIT]
@@ -517,8 +519,6 @@ el1_da:
 	mov	x2, sp				// struct pt_regs
 	bl	do_mem_abort
 
-	// disable interrupts before pulling preserved data off the stack
-	disable_irq
 	kernel_exit 1
 el1_sp_pc:
 	/*
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ ENDPROC(el0_irq)
  * and this includes saving x0 back into the kernel stack.
  */
 ret_fast_syscall:
-	disable_irq				// disable interrupts
+	disable_daif
 	str	x0, [sp, #S_X0]			// returned x0
 	ldr	x1, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS]	// re-check for syscall tracing
 	and	x2, x1, #_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK
@@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ ret_fast_syscall:
 	enable_step_tsk x1, x2
 	kernel_exit 0
 ret_fast_syscall_trace:
-	enable_irq				// enable interrupts
+	enable_daif
 	b	__sys_trace_return_skipped	// we already saved x0
 
 /*
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ work_pending:
  * "slow" syscall return path.
  */
 ret_to_user:
-	disable_irq				// disable interrupts
+	disable_daif
 	ldr	x1, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS]
 	and	x2, x1, #_TIF_WORK_MASK
 	cbnz	x2, work_pending
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
index 0bdc96c61bc0..8e6500c9471b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 
+#include <asm/daifflags.h>
 #include <asm/debug-monitors.h>
 #include <asm/elf.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -756,9 +757,12 @@ asmlinkage void do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs,
 		addr_limit_user_check();
 
 		if (thread_flags & _TIF_NEED_RESCHED) {
+			/* Unmask Debug and SError for the next task */
+			local_daif_restore(DAIF_PROCCTX_NOIRQ);
+
 			schedule();
 		} else {
-			local_irq_enable();
+			local_daif_restore(DAIF_PROCCTX);
 
 			if (thread_flags & _TIF_UPROBE)
 				uprobe_notify_resume(regs);
@@ -775,7 +779,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs,
 				fpsimd_restore_current_state();
 		}
 
-		local_irq_disable();
+		local_daif_mask();
 		thread_flags = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->flags);
 	} while (thread_flags & _TIF_WORK_MASK);
 }
-- 
2.15.0.rc2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-02 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-02 12:12 [RESEND PATCH v4 0/9] SError rework (- RAS & IESB for firmware first support) James Morse
2017-11-02 12:12 ` [RESEND PATCH v4 1/9] arm64: explicitly mask all exceptions James Morse
2017-11-02 12:12 ` [RESEND PATCH v4 2/9] arm64: introduce an order for exceptions James Morse
2017-11-02 12:12 ` [RESEND PATCH v4 3/9] arm64: Move the async/fiq helpers to explicitly set process context flags James Morse
2017-11-02 12:12 ` James Morse [this message]
2017-11-02 12:12 ` [RESEND PATCH v4 5/9] arm64: entry.S: Remove disable_dbg James Morse
2017-11-02 12:12 ` [RESEND PATCH v4 6/9] arm64: entry.S: convert el1_sync James Morse
2017-11-02 12:12 ` [RESEND PATCH v4 7/9] arm64: entry.S convert el0_sync James Morse
2017-11-02 12:12 ` [RESEND PATCH v4 8/9] arm64: entry.S: convert elX_irq James Morse
2017-11-02 12:12 ` [RESEND PATCH v4 9/9] arm64: entry.S: move SError handling into a C function for future expansion James Morse

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