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* [RFC v2 PATCH 0/9] Intel RAR TLB invalidation
@ 2025-05-20  1:02 Rik van Riel
  2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 1/9] x86/mm: Introduce MSR_IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES Rik van Riel
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From: Rik van Riel @ 2025-05-20  1:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: linux-mm, x86, kernel-team, dave.hansen, luto, peterz, tglx,
	mingo, bp, hpa, nadav.amit

This patch series adds support for IPI-less TLB invalidation
using Intel RAR technology.

Intel RAR differs from AMD INVLPGB in a few ways:
- RAR goes through (emulated?) APIC writes, not instructions
- RAR flushes go through a memory table with 64 entries
- RAR flushes can be targeted to a cpumask
- The RAR functionality must be set up at boot time before it can be used

The cpumask targeting has resulted in Intel RAR and AMD INVLPGB having
slightly different rules:
- Processes with dynamic ASIDs use IPI based shootdowns
- INVLPGB: processes with a global ASID 
   - always have the TLB up to date, on every CPU
   - never need to flush the TLB at context switch time
- RAR: processes with global ASIDs
   - have the TLB up to date on CPUs in the mm_cpumask
   - can skip a TLB flush at context switch time if the CPU is in the mm_cpumask
   - need to flush the TLB when scheduled on a cpu not in the mm_cpumask,
     in case it used to run there before and the TLB has stale entries

RAR functionality is present on Sapphire Rapids and newer CPUs.

Information about Intel RAR can be found in this whitepaper.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/en/documents/341431-remote-action-request-white-paper.pdf

This patch series is based off a 2019 patch series created by
Intel, with patches later in the series modified to fit into
the TLB flush code structure we have after AMD INVLPGB functionality
was integrated.

RFC v2:
- Cleanups suggested by Ingo and Nadav (thank you)
- Basic RAR code seems to actually work now
- Kernel TLB flushes with RAR seem to work correctly
- User TLB flushes with RAR are still broken, with two symptoms:
  - The !is_lazy WARN_ON in leave_mm() is tripped
  - Random segfaults



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2025-05-20  1:02 [RFC v2 PATCH 0/9] Intel RAR TLB invalidation Rik van Riel
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 1/9] x86/mm: Introduce MSR_IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES Rik van Riel
2025-05-21 14:57   ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-22 15:10   ` Sean Christopherson
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 2/9] x86/mm: Introduce Remote Action Request MSRs Rik van Riel
2025-05-21 11:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 3/9] x86/mm: enable BROADCAST_TLB_FLUSH on Intel, too Rik van Riel
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 4/9] x86/mm: Introduce X86_FEATURE_RAR Rik van Riel
2025-05-21 11:53   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-21 13:57     ` Rik van Riel
2025-05-21 14:53       ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-21 16:06         ` Rik van Riel
2025-05-21 19:39           ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 5/9] x86/mm: Change cpa_flush() to call flush_kernel_range() directly Rik van Riel
2025-05-21 11:54   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-21 15:16   ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 6/9] x86/apic: Introduce Remote Action Request Operations Rik van Riel
2025-05-20  9:16   ` Ingo Molnar
2025-06-04  0:11     ` Rik van Riel
2025-05-21 15:28   ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-21 15:59     ` Rik van Riel
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 7/9] x86/mm: Introduce Remote Action Request Rik van Riel
2025-05-20  9:28   ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-20 12:57     ` Rik van Riel
2025-05-24  9:22       ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-20 11:29   ` Nadav Amit
2025-05-20 13:00     ` Rik van Riel
2025-05-20 20:26       ` Nadav Amit
2025-05-20 20:31         ` Rik van Riel
2025-05-21 16:38   ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-21 19:06     ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-06-03 20:08     ` Rik van Riel
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 8/9] x86/mm: use RAR for kernel TLB flushes Rik van Riel
2025-05-20  1:02 ` [RFC v2 9/9] x86/mm: userspace & pageout flushing using Intel RAR Rik van Riel
2025-05-20  2:48   ` [RFC v2.1 " Rik van Riel

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