[PATCH 5.18 33/70] intel_idle: Disable IBRS during long idle

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-22T09:14:27Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit bf5835bcdb9635c97f85120dba9bfa21e111130f upstream.

Having IBRS enabled while the SMT sibling is idle unnecessarily slows
down the running sibling. OTOH, disabling IBRS around idle takes two
MSR writes, which will increase the idle latency.

Therefore, only disable IBRS around deeper idle states. Shallow idle
states are bounded by the tick in duration, since NOHZ is not allowed
for them by virtue of their short target residency.

Only do this for mwait-driven idle, since that keeps interrupts disabled
across idle, which makes disabling IBRS vs IRQ-entry a non-issue.

Note: C6 is a random threshold, most importantly C1 probably shouldn't
disable IBRS, benchmarking needed.

Suggested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 1
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 6 ++++
drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ static inline void indirect_branch_predi
/* The Intel SPEC CTRL MSR base value cache */
extern u64 x86_spec_ctrl_base;
extern void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val, bool force);
+extern u64 spec_ctrl_current(void);

/*
* With retpoline, we must use IBRS to restrict branch prediction
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val, bo
wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val);
}

+u64 spec_ctrl_current(void)
+{
+ return this_cpu_read(x86_spec_ctrl_current);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spec_ctrl_current);
+
/*
* The vendor and possibly platform specific bits which can be modified in
* x86_spec_ctrl_base.
--- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
@@ -47,11 +47,13 @@
#include <linux/tick.h>
#include <trace/events/power.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/sched/smt.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <asm/cpu_device_id.h>
#include <asm/intel-family.h>
+#include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
#include <asm/mwait.h>
#include <asm/msr.h>

@@ -106,6 +108,12 @@ static unsigned int mwait_substates __in
#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_ALWAYS_ENABLE BIT(15)

/*
+ * Disable IBRS across idle (when KERNEL_IBRS), is exclusive vs IRQ_ENABLE
+ * above.
+ */
+#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_IBRS BIT(16)
+
+/*
* MWAIT takes an 8-bit "hint" in EAX "suggesting"
* the C-state (top nibble) and sub-state (bottom nibble)
* 0x00 means "MWAIT(C1)", 0x10 means "MWAIT(C2)" etc.
@@ -159,6 +167,24 @@ static __cpuidle int intel_idle_irq(stru
return ret;
}

+static __cpuidle int intel_idle_ibrs(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
+ struct cpuidle_driver *drv, int index)
+{
+ bool smt_active = sched_smt_active();
+ u64 spec_ctrl = spec_ctrl_current();
+ int ret;
+
+ if (smt_active)
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
+
+ ret = __intel_idle(dev, drv, index);
+
+ if (smt_active)
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, spec_ctrl);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
/**
* intel_idle_s2idle - Ask the processor to enter the given idle state.
* @dev: cpuidle device of the target CPU.
@@ -680,7 +706,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_state skl_cstates[
{
.name = "C6",
.desc = "MWAIT 0x20",
- .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x20) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED,
+ .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x20) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED | CPUIDLE_FLAG_IBRS,
.exit_latency = 85,
.target_residency = 200,
.enter = &intel_idle,
@@ -688,7 +714,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_state skl_cstates[
{
.name = "C7s",
.desc = "MWAIT 0x33",
- .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x33) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED,
+ .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x33) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED | CPUIDLE_FLAG_IBRS,
.exit_latency = 124,
.target_residency = 800,
.enter = &intel_idle,
@@ -696,7 +722,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_state skl_cstates[
{
.name = "C8",
.desc = "MWAIT 0x40",
- .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x40) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED,
+ .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x40) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED | CPUIDLE_FLAG_IBRS,
.exit_latency = 200,
.target_residency = 800,
.enter = &intel_idle,
@@ -704,7 +730,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_state skl_cstates[
{
.name = "C9",
.desc = "MWAIT 0x50",
- .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x50) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED,
+ .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x50) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED | CPUIDLE_FLAG_IBRS,
.exit_latency = 480,
.target_residency = 5000,
.enter = &intel_idle,
@@ -712,7 +738,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_state skl_cstates[
{
.name = "C10",
.desc = "MWAIT 0x60",
- .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x60) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED,
+ .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x60) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED | CPUIDLE_FLAG_IBRS,
.exit_latency = 890,
.target_residency = 5000,
.enter = &intel_idle,
@@ -741,7 +767,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_state skx_cstates[
{
.name = "C6",
.desc = "MWAIT 0x20",
- .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x20) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED,
+ .flags = MWAIT2flg(0x20) | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED | CPUIDLE_FLAG_IBRS,
.exit_latency = 133,
.target_residency = 600,
.enter = &intel_idle,
@@ -1686,6 +1712,12 @@ static void __init intel_idle_init_cstat
if (cpuidle_state_table[cstate].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_IRQ_ENABLE)
drv->states[drv->state_count].enter = intel_idle_irq;

+ if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_KERNEL_IBRS) &&
+ cpuidle_state_table[cstate].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_IBRS) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(cpuidle_state_table[cstate].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_IRQ_ENABLE);
+ drv->states[drv->state_count].enter = intel_idle_ibrs;
+ }
+
if ((disabled_states_mask & BIT(drv->state_count)) ||
((icpu->use_acpi || force_use_acpi) &&
intel_idle_off_by_default(mwait_hint) &&