From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The entry/exit text and cpu_entry_area are mapped into userspace and
the kernel. But, they are not _PAGE_GLOBAL. This creates unnecessary
TLB misses.
Add the _PAGE_GLOBAL flag for these areas.
After this patch, we can see that "GLB" shows up in each copy of the
page tables, that we have the same number of global entries in each
and that they are the *same* entries.
# grep -c GLB /sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/*
/sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/current_kernel:11
/sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/current_user:11
/sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/kernel:11
# for f in `ls /sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/`; do grep GLB /sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/$f > $f.GLB; done
# md5sum *.GLB
9caae8ad6a1fb53aca2407ec037f612d current_kernel.GLB
9caae8ad6a1fb53aca2407ec037f612d current_user.GLB
9caae8ad6a1fb53aca2407ec037f612d kernel.GLB
A quick visual audit also shows that all the entries make sense.
0xfffffe0000000000 is the cpu_entry_area and 0xffffffff81c00000
is the entry/exit text:
# grep -c GLB /sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/current_user
0xfffffe0000000000-0xfffffe0000002000 8K ro GLB NX pte
0xfffffe0000002000-0xfffffe0000003000 4K RW GLB NX pte
0xfffffe0000003000-0xfffffe0000006000 12K ro GLB NX pte
0xfffffe0000006000-0xfffffe0000007000 4K ro GLB x pte
0xfffffe0000007000-0xfffffe000000d000 24K RW GLB NX pte
0xfffffe000002d000-0xfffffe000002e000 4K ro GLB NX pte
0xfffffe000002e000-0xfffffe000002f000 4K RW GLB NX pte
0xfffffe000002f000-0xfffffe0000032000 12K ro GLB NX pte
0xfffffe0000032000-0xfffffe0000033000 4K ro GLB x pte
0xfffffe0000033000-0xfffffe0000039000 24K RW GLB NX pte
0xffffffff81c00000-0xffffffff81e00000 2M ro PSE GLB x pmd
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
---
b/arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c | 7 +++++++
b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 9 ++++++++-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c~kpti-why-no-global arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c~kpti-why-no-global 2018-02-13 15:17:56.735210059 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c 2018-02-13 15:17:56.740210059 -0800
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ void cea_set_pte(void *cea_vaddr, phys_a
{
unsigned long va = (unsigned long) cea_vaddr;
+ /*
+ * The cpu_entry_area is shared between the user and kernel
+ * page tables. All of its ptes can safely be global.
+ */
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE))
+ pgprot_val(flags) |= _PAGE_GLOBAL;
+
set_pte_vaddr(va, pfn_pte(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags));
}
diff -puN arch/x86/mm/pti.c~kpti-why-no-global arch/x86/mm/pti.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c~kpti-why-no-global 2018-02-13 15:17:56.737210059 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c 2018-02-13 15:17:56.740210059 -0800
@@ -300,6 +300,13 @@ pti_clone_pmds(unsigned long start, unsi
return;
/*
+ * Setting 'target_pmd' below creates a mapping in both
+ * the user and kernel page tables. It is effectively
+ * global, so set it as global in both copies.
+ */
+ *pmd = pmd_set_flags(*pmd, _PAGE_GLOBAL);
+
+ /*
* Copy the PMD. That is, the kernelmode and usermode
* tables will share the last-level page tables of this
* address range
@@ -348,7 +355,7 @@ static void __init pti_clone_entry_text(
{
pti_clone_pmds((unsigned long) __entry_text_start,
(unsigned long) __irqentry_text_end,
- _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_GLOBAL);
+ _PAGE_RW);
}
/*
_
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