On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 07:46:54 -0700 > Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 09:09:13 -0500 >> > Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:51:27 -0700 >> >> Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> > The NT flag doesn't do anything in long mode other than causing IRET >> >> > to #GP. Oddly, CPL3 code can still set NT using popf. >> >> > >> >> > Entry via hardware or software interrupt clears NT automatically, so >> >> > the only relevant entries are fast syscalls. >> >> > >> >> > If user code causes kernel code to run with NT set, then there's at >> >> > least some (small) chance that it could cause trouble. For example, >> >> > user code could cause a call to EFI code with NT set, and who knows >> >> > what would happen? Apparently some games on Wine sometimes do >> >> > this (!), and, if an IRET return happens, they will segfault. That >> >> > segfault cannot be handled, because signal delivery fails, too. >> >> > >> >> > This patch programs the CPU to clear NT on entry via SYSCALL (both >> >> > 32-bit and 64-bit, by my reading of the AMD APM), and it clears NT >> >> > in software on entry via SYSENTER. >> >> > >> >> > To save a few cycles, this borrows a trick from Jan Beulich in Xen: >> >> > it checks whether NT is set before trying to clear it. As a result, >> >> > it seems to have very little effect on SYSENTER performance on my >> >> > machine. >> >> > >> >> > Testers beware: on Xen, SYSENTER with NT set turns into a GPF. >> >> > >> >> > I haven't touched anything on 32-bit kernels. >> >> > >> >> > The syscall mask change comes from a variant of this patch by Anish >> >> > Bhatt. >> >> > >> >> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> > Reported-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> > --- >> >> > arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 12 ++++++++++++ >> >> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +- >> >> > 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> > >> >> > diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S >> >> > index 4299eb05023c..44d1dd371454 100644 >> >> > --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S >> >> > +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S >> >> > @@ -151,6 +151,18 @@ ENTRY(ia32_sysenter_target) >> >> > 1: movl (%rbp),%ebp >> >> > _ASM_EXTABLE(1b,ia32_badarg) >> >> > ASM_CLAC >> >> > + >> >> > + /* >> >> > + * Sysenter doesn't filter flags, so we need to clear NT >> >> > + * ourselves. To save a few cycles, we can check whether >> >> > + * NT was set instead of doing an unconditional popfq. >> >> > + */ >> >> > + testl $X86_EFLAGS_NT,EFLAGS(%rsp) /* saved EFLAGS match cpu */ >> >> > + jz 1f >> >> > + pushq_cfi $(X86_EFLAGS_IF|X86_EFLAGS_FIXED) >> >> > + popfq_cfi >> >> > +1: >> >> > + >> >> >> >> I think you've gone backwards with this version. The earlier one got >> >> some of the performance loss back by not needing to do the "cld" insn. >> >> >> >> You should just replace that "cld" (line 146) with >> >> >> >> pushfq_cfi $2 >> >> popfq_cfi >> >> >> >> Unfortunately I'm not set up to test that yet. But I did look at >> >> the SDM and can't see a need to preserve any of the flags. >> >> >> > >> > >> > <sigh> that's: >> > >> > pushfw_cfi $0x202 >> > >> > IF needs to stay on because we've already enabled interrupts after >> > sysenter. >> >> I tried exactly this. It was much slower than the version I sent. >> > > Yeah, it looks like a new paravirt op that enables interrupts and > clears all the other flags would be the only way to do this without at > least some impact on performance. We have that -- it's called something like setfl. But it still wouldn't help. It seems that cld, test, jnz is simply much faster than popfq. If we could fold it with the sti earlier, *maybe* that would be a win, but then we'd also have to patch the saved flags to avoid returning to userspace with interrupts off. (And I tried that. It still didn't seem to be fast enough.) --Andy -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html