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[PATCH for 4.16 v3 07/11] x86: Implement sync_core_before_usermode

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: 2018-01-29 20:22:42
Also in: linux-arch, lkml
Subsystem: membarrier support, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Mathieu Desnoyers, "Paul E. McKenney", Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

Ensure that a core serializing instruction is issued before returning to
user-mode. x86 implements return to user-space through sysexit, sysrel,
and sysretq, which are not core serializing.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <redacted>
CC: Boqun Feng <redacted>
CC: Andrew Hunter <redacted>
CC: Maged Michael <redacted>
CC: Avi Kivity <redacted>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CC: Dave Watson <redacted>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
CC: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
CC: Greg Hackmann <redacted>
CC: Will Deacon <redacted>
CC: David Sehr <redacted>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
CC: x86@kernel.org
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
---
Changes since v1:
- Fix prototype of sync_core_before_usermode in generic code (missing
  return type).
- Add linux/processor.h include to sched/core.c.
- Add ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE to init/Kconfig.
- Fix linux/processor.h ifdef to target
  CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE rather than
  ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE.
- Move empty static inline in processor.h to generic patch.

Changes since v2:
- Introduce arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h
- Don't sync_core when KPTI is enabled, and when invoked from irq and nmi
  context.
- Note: v2 was reviewed by Thomas Gleixner, but changes were introduced
  since.
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig                 |  1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 20da391b5f32..0b44c8dd0e95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ config X86
 	select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
 	select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
 	select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
+	select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
 	select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
 	select ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE		if X86_64
 	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c67caafd3381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_X86_SYNC_CORE_H
+#define _ASM_X86_SYNC_CORE_H
+
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
+#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
+
+/*
+ * Ensure that a core serializing instruction is issued before returning
+ * to user-mode. x86 implements return to user-space through sysexit,
+ * sysrel, and sysretq, which are not core serializing.
+ */
+static inline void sync_core_before_usermode(void)
+{
+	/* With PTI, we unconditionally serialize before running user code. */
+	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI))
+		return;
+	/*
+	 * Return from interrupt and NMI is done through iret, which is core
+	 * serializing.
+	 */
+	if (in_irq() || in_nmi())
+		return;
+	sync_core();
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_X86_SYNC_CORE_H */
-- 
2.11.0
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