Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Add support for the clwb instruction

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:43:13AM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> Add support for the new clwb instruction.  This instruction was
> announced in the document "Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions
> Programming Reference" with reference number 319433-022.
> 
> https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53/319433-022.pdf
> 
> Here are some things of note:
> 
>  - As with the clflushopt patches before this, I'm assuming that the addressing
>    mode generated by the original clflush instruction will match the new
>    clflush instruction with the 0x66 prefix for clflushopt, and for the
>    xsaveopt instruction with the 0x66 prefix for clwb.  For all the test cases
>    that I've come up with and for the new clwb code generated by this patch
>    series, this has proven to be true on my test machine.
> 
>  - According to the SDM, xsaveopt has a form where it has a REX.W prefix.  I
>    believe that this prefix will not be generated by gcc in x86_64 kernel code.
>    Based on this, I don't believe I need to account for this extra prefix when
>    dealing with the assembly language created for clwb.  Please correct me if
>    I'm wrong.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: H Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h    |  1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index b3e6b89..fbbed34 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -227,6 +227,7 @@
>  #define X86_FEATURE_SMAP	( 9*32+20) /* Supervisor Mode Access Prevention */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_PCOMMIT	( 9*32+22) /* PCOMMIT instruction */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSHOPT	( 9*32+23) /* CLFLUSHOPT instruction */
> +#define X86_FEATURE_CLWB	( 9*32+24) /* CLWB instruction */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512PF	( 9*32+26) /* AVX-512 Prefetch */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512ER	( 9*32+27) /* AVX-512 Exponential and Reciprocal */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512CD	( 9*32+28) /* AVX-512 Conflict Detection */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> index 1709a2e..a328460 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> @@ -199,6 +199,16 @@ static inline void clflushopt(volatile void *__p)
>  		       "+m" (*(volatile char __force *)__p));
>  }
>  
> +static inline void clwb(volatile void *__p)
> +{
> +	alternative_io_2(".byte " __stringify(NOP_DS_PREFIX) "; clflush %P0",

Any particular reason for using 0x3e as a prefix to have the insns be
the same size or is it simply because CLFLUSH can stomach it?

:-)

> +			 ".byte 0x66; clflush %P0",
> +			 X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSHOPT,
> +			 ".byte 0x66; xsaveopt %P0",

Huh, XSAVEOPT?!? Shouldn't that be CLWB??

> +			 X86_FEATURE_CLWB,
> +			 "+m" (*(volatile char __force *)__p));
> +}
> +
>  static inline void pcommit(void)
>  {
>  	alternative(ASM_NOP4, ".byte 0x66, 0x0f, 0xae, 0xf8",
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 
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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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