Thread (79 messages) 79 messages, 10 authors, 2018-11-14

Re: [PATCH v5 02/27] x86/fpu/xstate: Change names to separate XSAVES system and user states

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Date: 2018-10-15 17:03:37
Also in: linux-api, linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 08:14:58AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
Control Flow Enforcement (CET) MSRs are XSAVES system/supervisor
states.  To support CET, we introduce XSAVES system states first.

XSAVES is a "supervisor" instruction and, comparing to XSAVE, saves
additional "supervisor" states that can be modified only from CPL 0.
However, these states are per-task and not kernel's own.  Rename
"supervisor" states to "system" states to clearly separate them from
"user" states.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h |  4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h   | 20 +++----
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c          |  4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c          |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c        |  6 +--
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c        | 82 ++++++++++++++---------------
 6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
...
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
index 87a57b7642d3..e7cbaed12ef1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
@@ -51,13 +51,14 @@ static short xsave_cpuid_features[] __initdata = {
 };
 
 /*
- * Mask of xstate features supported by the CPU and the kernel:
+ * Mask of supported 'user' xstate features derived from boot_cpu_has() and
+ * SUPPORTED_XFEATURES_MASK.
<--- This comment here looks like a good place to put some blurb about
user and system states, what they are, what the distinction is and so
on.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
  */
-u64 xfeatures_mask __read_mostly;
+u64 xfeatures_mask_user __read_mostly;
 
 static unsigned int xstate_offsets[XFEATURE_MAX] = { [ 0 ... XFEATURE_MAX - 1] = -1};
 static unsigned int xstate_sizes[XFEATURE_MAX]   = { [ 0 ... XFEATURE_MAX - 1] = -1};
-static unsigned int xstate_comp_offsets[sizeof(xfeatures_mask)*8];
+static unsigned int xstate_comp_offsets[sizeof(xfeatures_mask_user)*8];
 
 /*
  * The XSAVE area of kernel can be in standard or compacted format;
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ void fpu__xstate_clear_all_cpu_caps(void)
  */
 int cpu_has_xfeatures(u64 xfeatures_needed, const char **feature_name)
 {
-	u64 xfeatures_missing = xfeatures_needed & ~xfeatures_mask;
+	u64 xfeatures_missing = xfeatures_needed & ~xfeatures_mask_user;
 
 	if (unlikely(feature_name)) {
 		long xfeature_idx, max_idx;
@@ -113,14 +114,11 @@ int cpu_has_xfeatures(u64 xfeatures_needed, const char **feature_name)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_has_xfeatures);
 
-static int xfeature_is_supervisor(int xfeature_nr)
+static int xfeature_is_system(int xfeature_nr)
 {
 	/*
-	 * We currently do not support supervisor states, but if
-	 * we did, we could find out like this.
-	 *
 	 * SDM says: If state component 'i' is a user state component,
-	 * ECX[0] return 0; if state component i is a supervisor
+	 * ECX[0] return 0; if state component i is a system
		  is 0
 	 * state component, ECX[0] returns 1.
				   is 1.
 	 */
 	u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
...
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@@ -242,7 +238,7 @@ void fpu__init_cpu_xstate(void)
  */
 static int xfeature_enabled(enum xfeature xfeature)
 {
-	return !!(xfeatures_mask & (1UL << xfeature));
+	return !!(xfeatures_mask_user & BIT_ULL(xfeature));
 }
 
 /*
@@ -272,7 +268,7 @@ static void __init setup_xstate_features(void)
 		cpuid_count(XSTATE_CPUID, i, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
 
 		/*
-		 * If an xfeature is supervisor state, the offset
+		 * If an xfeature is system state, the offset
				is a system state, ...
 		 * in EBX is invalid. We leave it to -1.
 		 */
 		if (xfeature_is_user(i))
-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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