[RFC 09/10] x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB to track the actual loaded mm

Andy Lutomirski
2017-05-07T22:06:52Z

Lazy TLB state is current managed in a rather baroque manner.
AFAICT, there are three possible states:

- Non-lazy. This means that we're running a user thread or a
kernel thread that has called use_mm(). current->mm ==
current->active_mm == cpu_tlbstate.active_mm and
cpu_tlbstate.state == TLBSTATE_OK.

- Lazy with user mm. We're running a kernel thread without an mm
and we're borrowing an mm_struct. We have current->mm == NULL,
current->active_mm == cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, cpu_tlbstate.state
!= TLBSTATE_OK (i.e. TLBSTATE_LAZY or 0). The current cpu is set
in mm_cpumask(current->active_mm). CR3 points to
current->active_mm->pgd. The TLB is up to date.

- Lazy with init_mm. This happens when we call leave_mm(). We
have current->mm == NULL, current->active_mm ==
cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, but that mm is only relelvant insofar as
the scheduler is tracking it for refcounting. cpu_tlbstate.state
!= TLBSTATE_OK. The current cpu is clear in
mm_cpumask(current->active_mm). CR3 points to swapper_pg_dir,
i.e. init_mm->pgd.

This patch simplifies the situation. Other than perf, x86 stops
caring about current->active_mm at all. We have
cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm pointing to the mm that CR3 references. The
TLB is always up to date for that mm. leave_mm() just switches us
to init_mm. There are no longer any special cases for mm_cpumask,
and switch_mm() switches mms without worrying about laziness.

After this patch, cpu_tlbstate.state serves only to tell the TLB
flush code whether it may switch to init_mm instead of doing a
normal flush.

This makes fairly extensive changes to xen_exit_mmap(), which used
to look a bit like black magic.

Perf is unchanged. With or without this change, perf may behave a bit
erratically if it tries to read user memory in kernel thread context.
We should build on this patch to teach perf to never look at user
memory when cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm != current->mm.

Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/events/core.c | 3 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 12 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 5 +-
arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 209 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 51 +++++-----
6 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index 580b60f5ac83..77a33096728d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -2101,8 +2101,7 @@ static int x86_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)

static void refresh_pce(void *ignored)
{
- if (current->active_mm)
- load_mm_cr4(current->active_mm);
+ load_mm_cr4(this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm));
}

static void x86_pmu_event_mapped(struct perf_event *event)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 3c9289637669..a08680d3edaa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -66,7 +66,13 @@ static inline void invpcid_flush_all_nonglobals(void)
#endif

struct tlb_state {
- struct mm_struct *active_mm;
+ /*
+ * cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm should match CR3 whenever interrupts
+ * are on. This means that it may not match current->active_mm,
+ * which will contain the previous user mm when we're in lazy TLB
+ * mode even if we've already switched back to swapper_pg_dir.
+ */
+ struct mm_struct *loaded_mm;
int state;

/*
@@ -256,7 +262,9 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
static inline void reset_lazy_tlbstate(void)
{
this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, 0);
- this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, &init_mm);
+ this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm, &init_mm);
+
+ WARN_ON(read_cr3() != __pa_symbol(swapper_pg_dir));
}

static inline void arch_tlbbatch_add_mm(struct arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch *batch,
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
index d4a15831ac58..d7e01790ae86 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -24,12 +24,13 @@
/* context.lock is held for us, so we don't need any locking. */
static void flush_ldt(void *current_mm)
{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = current_mm;
mm_context_t *pc;

- if (current->active_mm != current_mm)
+ if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) != current_mm)
return;

- pc = &current->active_mm->context;
+ pc = &mm->context;
set_ldt(pc->ldt->entries, pc->ldt->size);
}

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 078972129885..47453ce2374e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
}

DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate) = {
- .active_mm = &init_mm,
+ .loaded_mm = &init_mm,
.state = 0,
.cr4 = ~0UL, /* fail hard if we screw up cr4 shadow initialization */
};
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index da1416c77bfb..c33fc1eaace4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -34,20 +34,19 @@
*/
void leave_mm(int cpu)
{
- struct mm_struct *active_mm = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm);
+ struct mm_struct *loaded_mm = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm);
if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.state) == TLBSTATE_OK)
BUG();
- if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(active_mm))) {
- cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(active_mm));
- load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
- /*
- * This gets called in the idle path where RCU
- * functions differently. Tracing normally
- * uses RCU, so we have to call the tracepoint
- * specially here.
- */
- trace_tlb_flush_rcuidle(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
- }
+
+ /*
+ * It's plausible that we're in lazy TLB mode while our mm is init_mm.
+ * If so, our callers still expect us to flush the TLB, but there
+ * aren't any user TLB entries in init_mm to worry about.
+ */
+ if (loaded_mm == &init_mm)
+ return;
+
+ switch_mm(NULL, &init_mm, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(leave_mm);

@@ -65,108 +64,110 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
struct task_struct *tsk)
{
unsigned cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ struct mm_struct *real_prev = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm);

- if (likely(prev != next)) {
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)) {
- /*
- * If our current stack is in vmalloc space and isn't
- * mapped in the new pgd, we'll double-fault. Forcibly
- * map it.
- */
- unsigned int stack_pgd_index = pgd_index(current_stack_pointer());
+ /*
+ * NB: The scheduler will call us with prev == next when
+ * switching from lazy TLB mode to normal mode if active_mm
+ * isn't changing. When this happens, there is no guarantee
+ * that CR3 (and hence cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) matches next.
+ *
+ * NB: leave_mm() calls us with prev == NULL and tsk == NULL.
+ */

- pgd_t *pgd = next->pgd + stack_pgd_index;
+ this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, TLBSTATE_OK);

- if (unlikely(pgd_none(*pgd)))
- set_pgd(pgd, init_mm.pgd[stack_pgd_index]);
- }
-
- this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, TLBSTATE_OK);
- this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, next);
-
- cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
+ if (real_prev == next) {
+ /*
+ * There's nothing to do: we always keep the per-mm control
+ * regs in sync with cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm. Just
+ * sanity-check mm_cpumask.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))))
+ cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
+ return;
+ }

+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)) {
/*
- * Re-load page tables.
- *
- * This logic has an ordering constraint:
- *
- * CPU 0: Write to a PTE for 'next'
- * CPU 0: load bit 1 in mm_cpumask. if nonzero, send IPI.
- * CPU 1: set bit 1 in next's mm_cpumask
- * CPU 1: load from the PTE that CPU 0 writes (implicit)
- *
- * We need to prevent an outcome in which CPU 1 observes
- * the new PTE value and CPU 0 observes bit 1 clear in
- * mm_cpumask. (If that occurs, then the IPI will never
- * be sent, and CPU 0's TLB will contain a stale entry.)
- *
- * The bad outcome can occur if either CPU's load is
- * reordered before that CPU's store, so both CPUs must
- * execute full barriers to prevent this from happening.
- *
- * Thus, switch_mm needs a full barrier between the
- * store to mm_cpumask and any operation that could load
- * from next->pgd. TLB fills are special and can happen
- * due to instruction fetches or for no reason at all,
- * and neither LOCK nor MFENCE orders them.
- * Fortunately, load_cr3() is serializing and gives the
- * ordering guarantee we need.
- *
+ * If our current stack is in vmalloc space and isn't
+ * mapped in the new pgd, we'll double-fault. Forcibly
+ * map it.
*/
- load_cr3(next->pgd);
+ unsigned int stack_pgd_index = pgd_index(current_stack_pointer());

- trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
+ pgd_t *pgd = next->pgd + stack_pgd_index;

- /* Stop flush ipis for the previous mm */
- cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(prev));
+ if (unlikely(pgd_none(*pgd)))
+ set_pgd(pgd, init_mm.pgd[stack_pgd_index]);
+ }

- /* Load per-mm CR4 state */
- load_mm_cr4(next);
+ this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm, next);
+
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next)));
+ cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
+
+ /*
+ * Re-load page tables.
+ *
+ * This logic has an ordering constraint:
+ *
+ * CPU 0: Write to a PTE for 'next'
+ * CPU 0: load bit 1 in mm_cpumask. if nonzero, send IPI.
+ * CPU 1: set bit 1 in next's mm_cpumask
+ * CPU 1: load from the PTE that CPU 0 writes (implicit)
+ *
+ * We need to prevent an outcome in which CPU 1 observes
+ * the new PTE value and CPU 0 observes bit 1 clear in
+ * mm_cpumask. (If that occurs, then the IPI will never
+ * be sent, and CPU 0's TLB will contain a stale entry.)
+ *
+ * The bad outcome can occur if either CPU's load is
+ * reordered before that CPU's store, so both CPUs must
+ * execute full barriers to prevent this from happening.
+ *
+ * Thus, switch_mm needs a full barrier between the
+ * store to mm_cpumask and any operation that could load
+ * from next->pgd. TLB fills are special and can happen
+ * due to instruction fetches or for no reason at all,
+ * and neither LOCK nor MFENCE orders them.
+ * Fortunately, load_cr3() is serializing and gives the
+ * ordering guarantee we need.
+ *
+ */
+ load_cr3(next->pgd);
+
+ /*
+ * This gets called via leave_mm() in the idle path where RCU
+ * functions differently. Tracing normally uses RCU, so we have to
+ * call the tracepoint specially here.
+ */
+ trace_tlb_flush_rcuidle(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
+
+ /* Stop flush ipis for the previous mm */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(real_prev)) &&
+ real_prev != &init_mm);
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(real_prev));
+
+ /* Load per-mm CR4 state */
+ load_mm_cr4(next);

#ifdef CONFIG_MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
- /*
- * Load the LDT, if the LDT is different.
- *
- * It's possible that prev->context.ldt doesn't match
- * the LDT register. This can happen if leave_mm(prev)
- * was called and then modify_ldt changed
- * prev->context.ldt but suppressed an IPI to this CPU.
- * In this case, prev->context.ldt != NULL, because we
- * never set context.ldt to NULL while the mm still
- * exists. That means that next->context.ldt !=
- * prev->context.ldt, because mms never share an LDT.
- */
- if (unlikely(prev->context.ldt != next->context.ldt))
- load_mm_ldt(next);
+ /*
+ * Load the LDT, if the LDT is different.
+ *
+ * It's possible that prev->context.ldt doesn't match
+ * the LDT register. This can happen if leave_mm(prev)
+ * was called and then modify_ldt changed
+ * prev->context.ldt but suppressed an IPI to this CPU.
+ * In this case, prev->context.ldt != NULL, because we
+ * never set context.ldt to NULL while the mm still
+ * exists. That means that next->context.ldt !=
+ * prev->context.ldt, because mms never share an LDT.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(real_prev->context.ldt != next->context.ldt))
+ load_mm_ldt(next);
#endif
- } else {
- this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, TLBSTATE_OK);
- BUG_ON(this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm) != next);
-
- if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))) {
- /*
- * On established mms, the mm_cpumask is only changed
- * from irq context, from ptep_clear_flush() while in
- * lazy tlb mode, and here. Irqs are blocked during
- * schedule, protecting us from simultaneous changes.
- */
- cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
-
- /*
- * We were in lazy tlb mode and leave_mm disabled
- * tlb flush IPI delivery. We must reload CR3
- * to make sure to use no freed page tables.
- *
- * As above, load_cr3() is serializing and orders TLB
- * fills with respect to the mm_cpumask write.
- */
- load_cr3(next->pgd);
- trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
- load_mm_cr4(next);
- load_mm_ldt(next);
- }
- }
}

/*
@@ -246,7 +247,7 @@ static void flush_tlb_func_remote(void *info)

inc_irq_stat(irq_tlb_count);

- if (f->mm && f->mm != this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm))
+ if (f->mm && f->mm != this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm))
return;

count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_REMOTE_FLUSH_RECEIVED);
@@ -314,7 +315,7 @@ void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
info.end = TLB_FLUSH_ALL;
}

- if (mm == current->active_mm)
+ if (mm == this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm))
flush_tlb_func_local(&info, TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN);
if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), cpu) < nr_cpu_ids)
flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask(mm), &info);
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index 894daefd6958..c34fd91a0f5a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -1013,37 +1013,32 @@ static void xen_dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *oldmm, struct mm_struct *mm)
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
}

-
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-/* Another cpu may still have their %cr3 pointing at the pagetable, so
- we need to repoint it somewhere else before we can unpin it. */
-static void drop_other_mm_ref(void *info)
+static void drop_mm_ref_this_cpu(void *info)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = info;
- struct mm_struct *active_mm;
-
- active_mm = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm);

- if (active_mm == mm && this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.state) != TLBSTATE_OK)
+ if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) == mm)
leave_mm(smp_processor_id());

- /* If this cpu still has a stale cr3 reference, then make sure
- it has been flushed. */
+ /*
+ * If this cpu still has a stale cr3 reference, then make sure
+ * it has been flushed.
+ */
if (this_cpu_read(xen_current_cr3) == __pa(mm->pgd))
- load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
+ xen_mc_flush();
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+/*
+ * Another cpu may still have their %cr3 pointing at the pagetable, so
+ * we need to repoint it somewhere else before we can unpin it.
+ */
static void xen_drop_mm_ref(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
cpumask_var_t mask;
unsigned cpu;

- if (current->active_mm == mm) {
- if (current->mm == mm)
- load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
- else
- leave_mm(smp_processor_id());
- }
+ drop_mm_ref_this_cpu(mm);

/* Get the "official" set of cpus referring to our pagetable. */
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&mask, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
@@ -1051,31 +1046,31 @@ static void xen_drop_mm_ref(struct mm_struct *mm)
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(mm))
&& per_cpu(xen_current_cr3, cpu) != __pa(mm->pgd))
continue;
- smp_call_function_single(cpu, drop_other_mm_ref, mm, 1);
+ smp_call_function_single(cpu, drop_mm_ref_this_cpu, mm, 1);
}
return;
}
cpumask_copy(mask, mm_cpumask(mm));

- /* It's possible that a vcpu may have a stale reference to our
- cr3, because its in lazy mode, and it hasn't yet flushed
- its set of pending hypercalls yet. In this case, we can
- look at its actual current cr3 value, and force it to flush
- if needed. */
+ /*
+ * It's possible that a vcpu may have a stale reference to our
+ * cr3, because its in lazy mode, and it hasn't yet flushed
+ * its set of pending hypercalls yet. In this case, we can
+ * look at its actual current cr3 value, and force it to flush
+ * if needed.
+ */
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
if (per_cpu(xen_current_cr3, cpu) == __pa(mm->pgd))
cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mask);
}

- if (!cpumask_empty(mask))
- smp_call_function_many(mask, drop_other_mm_ref, mm, 1);
+ smp_call_function_many(mask, drop_mm_ref_this_cpu, mm, 1);
free_cpumask_var(mask);
}
#else
static void xen_drop_mm_ref(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- if (current->active_mm == mm)
- load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
+ drop_mm_ref_this_cpu(mm);
}
#endif

--
2.9.3