[PATCH v5 00/34] x86: enable FRED for x86-64

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This patch set enables FRED for x86-64.

The Intel flexible return and event delivery (FRED) architecture defines simple
new transitions that change privilege level (ring transitions). The FRED
architecture was designed with the following goals:
1) Improve overall performance and response time by replacing event delivery
through the interrupt descriptor table (IDT event delivery) and event return by
the IRET instruction with lower latency transitions.
2) Improve software robustness by ensuring that event delivery establishes the
full supervisor context and that event return establishes the full user context.

The new transitions defined by the FRED architecture are FRED event delivery and,
for returning from events, two FRED return instructions. FRED event delivery can
effect a transition from ring 3 to ring 0, but it is used also to deliver events
incident to ring 0. One FRED instruction (ERETU) effects a return from ring 0 to
ring 3, while the other (ERETS) returns while remaining in ring 0.

Search for the latest FRED spec in most search engines with this search pattern:

  site:intel.com FRED (flexible return and event delivery) specification

As of now there is no publicly avaiable CPU supporting FRED, thus the Intel
Simics® Simulator is used as software development and testing vehicles. And
it can be downloaded from:
  https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/simics-simulator.html

To enable FRED, the Simics package 8112 QSP-CPU needs to be installed with CPU
model configured as:
	$cpu_comp_class = "x86-experimental-fred"

Longer term, we should refactor common code shared by FRED and IDT into common
shared files, and contain IDT code using a new config CONFIG_X86_IDT.

Changes since v4:
* Rebased against v6.3-rc1.
* Do NOT use the term "injection", which in the KVM context means to
  reinject an event into the guest (Sean Christopherson).
* Add the explanation of why to execute "int $2" to invoke the NMI handler
  in NMI caused VM exits (Sean Christopherson).
* Use cs/ss instead of csx/ssx when initializing the pt_regs structure
  for calling external_interrupt(), otherwise it breaks i386 build.

Changes since v3:
* Call external_interrupt() to handle IRQ in IRQ caused VM exits.
* Execute "int $2" to handle NMI in NMI caused VM exits.
* Rename csl/ssl of the pt_regs structure to csx/ssx (x for extended)
  (Andrew Cooper).

Changes since v2:
* Improve comments for changes in arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h.

Changes since v1:
* call irqentry_nmi_{enter,exit}() in both IDT and FRED debug fault kernel
  handler (Peter Zijlstra).
* Initialize a FRED exception handler to fred_bad_event() instead of NULL
  if no FRED handler defined for an exception vector (Peter Zijlstra).
* Push calling irqentry_{enter,exit}() and instrumentation_{begin,end}()
  down into individual FRED exception handlers, instead of in the dispatch
  framework (Peter Zijlstra).


H. Peter Anvin (Intel) (24):
  x86/traps: let common_interrupt() handle IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR
  x86/traps: add a system interrupt table for system interrupt dispatch
  x86/traps: add external_interrupt() to dispatch external interrupts
  x86/cpufeature: add the cpu feature bit for FRED
  x86/opcode: add ERETU, ERETS instructions to x86-opcode-map
  x86/objtool: teach objtool about ERETU and ERETS
  x86/cpu: add X86_CR4_FRED macro
  x86/fred: add Kconfig option for FRED (CONFIG_X86_FRED)
  x86/fred: if CONFIG_X86_FRED is disabled, disable FRED support
  x86/cpu: add MSR numbers for FRED configuration
  x86/fred: header file with FRED definitions
  x86/fred: make unions for the cs and ss fields in struct pt_regs
  x86/fred: reserve space for the FRED stack frame
  x86/fred: add a page fault entry stub for FRED
  x86/fred: add a debug fault entry stub for FRED
  x86/fred: add a NMI entry stub for FRED
  x86/fred: FRED entry/exit and dispatch code
  x86/fred: FRED initialization code
  x86/fred: update MSR_IA32_FRED_RSP0 during task switch
  x86/fred: let ret_from_fork() jmp to fred_exit_user when FRED is
    enabled
  x86/fred: disallow the swapgs instruction when FRED is enabled
  x86/fred: no ESPFIX needed when FRED is enabled
  x86/fred: allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new thread
  x86/fred: allow FRED systems to use interrupt vectors 0x10-0x1f

Xin Li (10):
  x86/traps: add install_system_interrupt_handler()
  x86/traps: export external_interrupt() for VMX IRQ reinjection
  x86/fred: header file for event types
  x86/fred: add a machine check entry stub for FRED
  x86/fred: fixup fault on ERETU by jumping to fred_entrypoint_user
  x86/ia32: do not modify the DPL bits for a null selector
  x86/fred: allow dynamic stack frame size
  x86/fred: disable FRED by default in its early stage
  KVM: x86/vmx: call external_interrupt() to handle IRQ in IRQ caused VM
    exits
  KVM: x86/vmx: execute "int $2" to handle NMI in NMI caused VM exits
    when FRED is enabled

 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |   4 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig                              |   9 +
 arch/x86/entry/Makefile                       |   5 +-
 arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S                     |   2 +-
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S                     |   5 +
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64_fred.S                |  59 +++++
 arch/x86/entry/entry_fred.c                   | 234 ++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c         |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h            |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h      |   8 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/entry-common.h           |   3 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/event-type.h             |  17 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/extable_fixup_types.h    |   4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/fred.h                   | 131 ++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h               |  76 +++++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/irq.h                    |   5 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h            |  15 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h              |  13 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h              |  12 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h                 |  36 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h              |  10 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h            |  35 +--
 arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h                  |  13 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h                    |  17 +-
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/processor-flags.h   |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile                      |   1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c                   |  11 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c                 |   8 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c                    |   7 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                  |  88 ++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c                |  11 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c                |  22 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c                   |   8 +
 arch/x86/kernel/fred.c                        |  73 ++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S                     |   3 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/idt.c                         |   6 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/irq.c                         |   6 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c                     |   7 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                         |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c                         |  28 +++
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c                     |   5 +
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c                  |  21 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c                   |  21 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                       | 175 +++++++++++--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                        |  33 ++-
 arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt               |   2 +-
 arch/x86/mm/extable.c                         |  28 +++
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c                           |  20 +-
 drivers/xen/events/events_base.c              |   5 +-
 kernel/fork.c                                 |   6 +
 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h      |   1 +
 .../arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h  |   8 +-
 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h        |  13 +-
 tools/arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt         |   2 +-
 tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c               |  19 +-
 55 files changed, 1185 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/entry/entry_64_fred.S
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/entry/entry_fred.c
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/event-type.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/fred.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/fred.c

-- 
2.34.1




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