From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7CDBC4BA2C for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADEF421D7E for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727774AbgBZWCI (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:02:08 -0500 Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.31]:10191 "EHLO mga06.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727672AbgBZWCI (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:02:08 -0500 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga006.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.51]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 26 Feb 2020 14:02:07 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.70,489,1574150400"; d="scan'208";a="241822675" Received: from pkabrax-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.251.2.6]) ([10.251.2.6]) by orsmga006.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Feb 2020 14:02:06 -0800 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v9 10/27] x86/mm: Update pte_modify, pmd_modify, and _PAGE_CHG_MASK for _PAGE_DIRTY_SW To: Yu-cheng Yu , x86@kernel.org, "H. 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Shankar" , Vedvyas Shanbhogue , Dave Martin , x86-patch-review@intel.com References: <20200205181935.3712-1-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> <20200205181935.3712-11-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> From: Dave Hansen Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=dave.hansen@intel.com; keydata= mQINBE6HMP0BEADIMA3XYkQfF3dwHlj58Yjsc4E5y5G67cfbt8dvaUq2fx1lR0K9h1bOI6fC oAiUXvGAOxPDsB/P6UEOISPpLl5IuYsSwAeZGkdQ5g6m1xq7AlDJQZddhr/1DC/nMVa/2BoY 2UnKuZuSBu7lgOE193+7Uks3416N2hTkyKUSNkduyoZ9F5twiBhxPJwPtn/wnch6n5RsoXsb ygOEDxLEsSk/7eyFycjE+btUtAWZtx+HseyaGfqkZK0Z9bT1lsaHecmB203xShwCPT49Blxz VOab8668QpaEOdLGhtvrVYVK7x4skyT3nGWcgDCl5/Vp3TWA4K+IofwvXzX2ON/Mj7aQwf5W iC+3nWC7q0uxKwwsddJ0Nu+dpA/UORQWa1NiAftEoSpk5+nUUi0WE+5DRm0H+TXKBWMGNCFn c6+EKg5zQaa8KqymHcOrSXNPmzJuXvDQ8uj2J8XuzCZfK4uy1+YdIr0yyEMI7mdh4KX50LO1 pmowEqDh7dLShTOif/7UtQYrzYq9cPnjU2ZW4qd5Qz2joSGTG9eCXLz5PRe5SqHxv6ljk8mb ApNuY7bOXO/A7T2j5RwXIlcmssqIjBcxsRRoIbpCwWWGjkYjzYCjgsNFL6rt4OL11OUF37wL QcTl7fbCGv53KfKPdYD5hcbguLKi/aCccJK18ZwNjFhqr4MliQARAQABtEVEYXZpZCBDaHJp c3RvcGhlciBIYW5zZW4gKEludGVsIFdvcmsgQWRkcmVzcykgPGRhdmUuaGFuc2VuQGludGVs LmNvbT6JAjgEEwECACIFAlQ+9J0CGwMGCwkIBwMCBhUIAgkKCwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEGg1 lTBwyZKwLZUP/0dnbhDc229u2u6WtK1s1cSd9WsflGXGagkR6liJ4um3XCfYWDHvIdkHYC1t MNcVHFBwmQkawxsYvgO8kXT3SaFZe4ISfB4K4CL2qp4JO+nJdlFUbZI7cz/Td9z8nHjMcWYF IQuTsWOLs/LBMTs+ANumibtw6UkiGVD3dfHJAOPNApjVr+M0P/lVmTeP8w0uVcd2syiaU5jB aht9CYATn+ytFGWZnBEEQFnqcibIaOrmoBLu2b3fKJEd8Jp7NHDSIdrvrMjYynmc6sZKUqH2 I1qOevaa8jUg7wlLJAWGfIqnu85kkqrVOkbNbk4TPub7VOqA6qG5GCNEIv6ZY7HLYd/vAkVY E8Plzq/NwLAuOWxvGrOl7OPuwVeR4hBDfcrNb990MFPpjGgACzAZyjdmYoMu8j3/MAEW4P0z F5+EYJAOZ+z212y1pchNNauehORXgjrNKsZwxwKpPY9qb84E3O9KYpwfATsqOoQ6tTgr+1BR CCwP712H+E9U5HJ0iibN/CDZFVPL1bRerHziuwuQuvE0qWg0+0SChFe9oq0KAwEkVs6ZDMB2 P16MieEEQ6StQRlvy2YBv80L1TMl3T90Bo1UUn6ARXEpcbFE0/aORH/jEXcRteb+vuik5UGY 5TsyLYdPur3TXm7XDBdmmyQVJjnJKYK9AQxj95KlXLVO38lcuQINBFRjzmoBEACyAxbvUEhd GDGNg0JhDdezyTdN8C9BFsdxyTLnSH31NRiyp1QtuxvcqGZjb2trDVuCbIzRrgMZLVgo3upr MIOx1CXEgmn23Zhh0EpdVHM8IKx9Z7V0r+rrpRWFE8/wQZngKYVi49PGoZj50ZEifEJ5qn/H Nsp2+Y+bTUjDdgWMATg9DiFMyv8fvoqgNsNyrrZTnSgoLzdxr89FGHZCoSoAK8gfgFHuO54B lI8QOfPDG9WDPJ66HCodjTlBEr/Cwq6GruxS5i2Y33YVqxvFvDa1tUtl+iJ2SWKS9kCai2DR 3BwVONJEYSDQaven/EHMlY1q8Vln3lGPsS11vSUK3QcNJjmrgYxH5KsVsf6PNRj9mp8Z1kIG qjRx08+nnyStWC0gZH6NrYyS9rpqH3j+hA2WcI7De51L4Rv9pFwzp161mvtc6eC/GxaiUGuH BNAVP0PY0fqvIC68p3rLIAW3f97uv4ce2RSQ7LbsPsimOeCo/5vgS6YQsj83E+AipPr09Caj 0hloj+hFoqiticNpmsxdWKoOsV0PftcQvBCCYuhKbZV9s5hjt9qn8CE86A5g5KqDf83Fxqm/ vXKgHNFHE5zgXGZnrmaf6resQzbvJHO0Fb0CcIohzrpPaL3YepcLDoCCgElGMGQjdCcSQ+Ci FCRl0Bvyj1YZUql+ZkptgGjikQARAQABiQIfBBgBAgAJBQJUY85qAhsMAAoJEGg1lTBwyZKw l4IQAIKHs/9po4spZDFyfDjunimEhVHqlUt7ggR1Hsl/tkvTSze8pI1P6dGp2XW6AnH1iayn yRcoyT0ZJ+Zmm4xAH1zqKjWplzqdb/dO28qk0bPso8+1oPO8oDhLm1+tY+cOvufXkBTm+whm +AyNTjaCRt6aSMnA/QHVGSJ8grrTJCoACVNhnXg/R0g90g8iV8Q+IBZyDkG0tBThaDdw1B2l asInUTeb9EiVfL/Zjdg5VWiF9LL7iS+9hTeVdR09vThQ/DhVbCNxVk+DtyBHsjOKifrVsYep WpRGBIAu3bK8eXtyvrw1igWTNs2wazJ71+0z2jMzbclKAyRHKU9JdN6Hkkgr2nPb561yjcB8 sIq1pFXKyO+nKy6SZYxOvHxCcjk2fkw6UmPU6/j/nQlj2lfOAgNVKuDLothIxzi8pndB8Jju KktE5HJqUUMXePkAYIxEQ0mMc8Po7tuXdejgPMwgP7x65xtfEqI0RuzbUioFltsp1jUaRwQZ MTsCeQDdjpgHsj+P2ZDeEKCbma4m6Ez/YWs4+zDm1X8uZDkZcfQlD9NldbKDJEXLIjYWo1PH hYepSffIWPyvBMBTW2W5FRjJ4vLRrJSUoEfJuPQ3vW9Y73foyo/qFoURHO48AinGPZ7PC7TF vUaNOTjKedrqHkaOcqB185ahG2had0xnFsDPlx5y Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:02:06 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200205181935.3712-11-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-api-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org The subject really needs work. Could you think of a way to summarize the changes here in english as opposed to just listing the symbols you modified? I think we could probably just auto-generate subjects for patches if the existing one were sufficient. On 2/5/20 10:19 AM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > After the introduction of _PAGE_DIRTY_SW, pte_modify and pmd_modify need to > set the Dirty bit accordingly: if Shadow Stack is enabled and _PAGE_RW is > cleared, use _PAGE_DIRTY_SW; otherwise _PAGE_DIRTY_HW. You've basically gone and written the code's if() statement in english here. That doesn't really help me understand the patch. > Since the Dirty bit is modify by pte_modify(), remove _PAGE_DIRTY_HW from > PAGE_CHG_MASK. ^ modified This is a great example of a changelog that adds very little value. It's following the comments and doing what they say, but it's pretty obvious that the analysis stopped there. What *kinds* of bits are in _PAGE_CHG_MASK or not? What changed about _PAGE_DIRTY_HW. By this definition, shouldn't _PAGE_DIRTY_SW have technically been in this mask before this patch? > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h > index 62aeb118bc36..2733e7ec16b3 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h > @@ -702,6 +702,14 @@ static inline pte_t pte_modify(pte_t pte, pgprot_t newprot) > val &= _PAGE_CHG_MASK; > val |= check_pgprot(newprot) & ~_PAGE_CHG_MASK; > val = flip_protnone_guard(oldval, val, PTE_PFN_MASK); > + > + if (pte_dirty(pte)) { > + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK) && !(val & _PAGE_RW)) > + val |= _PAGE_DIRTY_SW; > + else > + val |= _PAGE_DIRTY_HW; > + } > + > return __pte(val); > } OK, so this is a path we use for changing bunches of PTEs to 'newprot'. It doesn't use the pte_*() helpers that the previous patch fixed up, so we need a new site. Right? Maybe that would make good changelog text. Also, couldn't we just have a pte_fixup() function or something that did this logic and could be shared? > @@ -712,6 +720,14 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_modify(pmd_t pmd, pgprot_t newprot) > val &= _HPAGE_CHG_MASK; > val |= check_pgprot(newprot) & ~_HPAGE_CHG_MASK; > val = flip_protnone_guard(oldval, val, PHYSICAL_PMD_PAGE_MASK); > + > + if (pmd_dirty(pmd)) { > + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK) && !(val & _PAGE_RW)) > + val |= _PAGE_DIRTY_SW; > + else > + val |= _PAGE_DIRTY_HW; > + } > + > return __pmd(val); > } > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h > index 826823df917f..e7e28bf7e919 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h > @@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ > * instance, and is *not* included in this mask since > * pte_modify() does modify it. > */ > -#define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \ > - _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY_HW | \ > +#define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \ > + _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | \ > _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY | _PAGE_DEVMAP) > #define _HPAGE_CHG_MASK (_PAGE_CHG_MASK | _PAGE_PSE)