This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kaiser: asm/tlbflush.h handle noPGE at lower level
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 20:37:21 CET 2018
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 18:23:24 -0700
Subject: kaiser: asm/tlbflush.h handle noPGE at lower level
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
I found asm/tlbflush.h too twisty, and think it safer not to avoid
__native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled() in the kaiser_enabled case,
but instead let it handle kaiser_enabled along with cr3: it can just
use __native_flush_tlb() for that, no harm in re-disabling preemption.
(This is not the same change as Kirill and Dave have suggested for
upstream, flipping PGE in cr4: that's neat, but needs a cpu_has_pge
check; cr3 is enough for kaiser, and thought to be cheaper than cr4.)
Also delete the X86_FEATURE_INVPCID invpcid_flush_all_nonglobals()
preference from __native_flush_tlb(): unlike the invpcid_flush_all()
preference in __native_flush_tlb_global(), it's not seen in upstream
4.14, and was recently reported to be surprisingly slow.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 27 +++------------------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -152,14 +152,6 @@ static inline void kaiser_flush_tlb_on_r
static inline void __native_flush_tlb(void)
{
- if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) {
- /*
- * Note, this works with CR4.PCIDE=0 or 1.
- */
- invpcid_flush_all_nonglobals();
- return;
- }
-
/*
* If current->mm == NULL then we borrow a mm which may change during a
* task switch and therefore we must not be preempted while we write CR3
@@ -183,11 +175,8 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_gl
/* restore PGE as it was before */
native_write_cr4(cr4);
} else {
- /*
- * x86_64 microcode update comes this way when CR4.PGE is not
- * enabled, and it's safer for all callers to allow this case.
- */
- native_write_cr3(native_read_cr3());
+ /* do it with cr3, letting kaiser flush user PCID */
+ __native_flush_tlb();
}
}
@@ -195,12 +184,6 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_gl
{
unsigned long flags;
- if (kaiser_enabled) {
- /* Globals are not used at all */
- __native_flush_tlb();
- return;
- }
-
if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) {
/*
* Using INVPCID is considerably faster than a pair of writes
@@ -256,11 +239,7 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_si
static inline void __flush_tlb_all(void)
{
- if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE))
- __flush_tlb_global();
- else
- __flush_tlb();
-
+ __flush_tlb_global();
/*
* Note: if we somehow had PCID but not PGE, then this wouldn't work --
* we'd end up flushing kernel translations for the current ASID but
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-add-nokaiser-boot-option-using-alternative.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user-check-pcid.patch
queue-4.9/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-merged-update.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-delete-kaiser_real_switch-option.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser_remove_mapping-move-along-the-pgd.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-perf-crashes.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-drop-is_atomic-arg-to-kaiser_pagetable_walk.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-load_new_mm_cr3-let-switch_user_cr3-flush-user.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-enhanced-by-kernel-and-user-pcids.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush-and-x86_cr3_pcid_user.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-align-addition-to-x86-mm-makefile.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-use-alternative-instead-of-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-stack-map-page_size-at-thread_size-page_size.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-regs-to-do_nmi-ifndef-config_kaiser.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-do-not-set-_page_nx-on-pgd_none.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-tidied-up-kaiser_add-remove_mapping-slightly.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-kernel-address-isolation.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-paranoid_entry-pass-cr3-need-to-paranoid_exit.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser-depends-on-smp.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-pcid-0-for-kernel-and-128-for-user.patch