Pull CRC updates from Eric Biggers:
"Another set of improvements to the kernel's CRC (cyclic redundancy
check) code:
- Rework the CRC64 library functions to be directly optimized, like
what I did last cycle for the CRC32 and CRC-T10DIF library
functions
- Rewrite the x86 PCLMULQDQ-optimized CRC code, and add VPCLMULQDQ
support and acceleration for crc64_be and crc64_nvme
- Rewrite the riscv Zbc-optimized CRC code, and add acceleration for
crc_t10dif, crc64_be, and crc64_nvme
- Remove crc_t10dif and crc64_rocksoft from the crypto API, since
they are no longer needed there
- Rename crc64_rocksoft to crc64_nvme, as the old name was incorrect
- Add kunit test cases for crc64_nvme and crc7
- Eliminate redundant functions for calculating the Castagnoli CRC32,
settling on just crc32c()
- Remove unnecessary prompts from some of the CRC kconfig options
- Further optimize the x86 crc32c code"
* tag 'crc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux: (36 commits)
x86/crc: drop the avx10_256 functions and rename avx10_512 to avx512
lib/crc: remove unnecessary prompt for CONFIG_CRC64
lib/crc: remove unnecessary prompt for CONFIG_LIBCRC32C
lib/crc: remove unnecessary prompt for CONFIG_CRC8
lib/crc: remove unnecessary prompt for CONFIG_CRC7
lib/crc: remove unnecessary prompt for CONFIG_CRC4
lib/crc7: unexport crc7_be_syndrome_table
lib/crc_kunit.c: update comment in crc_benchmark()
lib/crc_kunit.c: add test and benchmark for crc7_be()
x86/crc32: optimize tail handling for crc32c short inputs
riscv/crc64: add Zbc optimized CRC64 functions
riscv/crc-t10dif: add Zbc optimized CRC-T10DIF function
riscv/crc32: reimplement the CRC32 functions using new template
riscv/crc: add "template" for Zbc optimized CRC functions
x86/crc: add ANNOTATE_NOENDBR to suppress objtool warnings
x86/crc32: improve crc32c_arch() code generation with clang
x86/crc64: implement crc64_be and crc64_nvme using new template
x86/crc-t10dif: implement crc_t10dif using new template
x86/crc32: implement crc32_le using new template
x86/crc: add "template" for [V]PCLMULQDQ based CRC functions
...
X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC is a Linux-defined, synthesized feature flag.
It is used across several vendors. Intel CPUs will set the feature when
the architectural CPUID.80000007.EDX[1] bit is set. There are also some
Intel CPUs that have the X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC behavior but don't
enumerate it with the architectural bit. Those currently have a model
range check.
Today, virtually all of the CPUs that have the CPUID bit *also* match
the "model >= 0x0e" check. This is confusing. Instead of an open-ended
check, pick some models (INTEL_IVYBRIDGE and P4_WILLAMETTE) as the end
of goofy CPUs that should enumerate the bit but don't. These models are
relatively arbitrary but conservative pick for this.
This makes it obvious that later CPUs (like Family 18+) no longer need
to synthesize X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC.
Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219184133.816753-14-sohil.mehta@intel.com
X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD is a linux defined feature flag to track whether
fast string operations should be used for copy_page(). It is also used
as a second alternative for clear_page() if enhanced fast string
operations (ERMS) are not available.
X86_FEATURE_ERMS is an Intel-specific hardware-defined feature flag that
tracks hardware support for Enhanced Fast strings. It is used to track
whether Fast strings should be used for similar memory copy and memory
clearing operations.
On top of these, there is a FAST_STRING enable bit in the
IA32_MISC_ENABLE MSR. It is typically controlled by the BIOS to provide
a hint to the hardware and the OS on whether fast string operations are
preferred.
Commit:
161ec53c70 ("x86, mem, intel: Initialize Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB")
introduced a mechanism to honor the BIOS preference for fast string
operations and clear the above feature flags if needed.
Unfortunately, the current initialization code for Intel to set and
clear these bits is confusing at best and likely incorrect.
X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD is cleared in early_init_intel() if
MISC_ENABLE.FAST_STRING is 0. But it gets set later on unconditionally
for all Family 6 processors in init_intel(). This not only overrides the
BIOS preference but also contradicts the earlier check.
Fix this by combining the related checks and always relying on the BIOS
provided preference for fast string operations. This simplification
makes sure the upcoming Intel Family 18 and 19 models are covered as
well.
Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219184133.816753-12-sohil.mehta@intel.com
Commit:
e0ba94f14f ("x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU")
introduced u16 "info" arrays for each TLB type.
Since 2012 and each array stores just one type of information: the
number of TLB entries for its respective TLB type.
Replace such arrays with simple variables.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304085152.51092-8-darwi@linutronix.de
CPUID leaf 0x2's one-byte TLB descriptors report the number of entries
for specific TLB types, among other properties.
Typically, each emitted descriptor implies the same number of entries
for its respective TLB type(s). An emitted 0x63 descriptor is an
exception: it implies 4 data TLB entries for 1GB pages and 32 data TLB
entries for 2MB or 4MB pages.
For the TLB descriptors parsing code, the entry count for 1GB pages is
encoded at the intel_tlb_table[] mapping, but the 2MB/4MB entry count is
totally ignored.
Update leaf 0x2's parsing logic 0x2 to account for 32 data TLB entries
for 2MB/4MB pages implied by the 0x63 descriptor.
Fixes: e0ba94f14f ("x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304085152.51092-4-darwi@linutronix.de
CPUID leaf 0x2 emits one-byte descriptors in its four output registers
EAX, EBX, ECX, and EDX. For these descriptors to be valid, the most
significant bit (MSB) of each register must be clear.
Leaf 0x2 parsing at intel.c only validated the MSBs of EAX, EBX, and
ECX, but left EDX unchecked.
Validate EDX's most-significant bit as well.
Fixes: e0ba94f14f ("x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304085152.51092-3-darwi@linutronix.de
Lift zmm_exclusion_list in aesni-intel_glue.c into the x86 CPU setup
code, and add a new x86 CPU feature flag X86_FEATURE_PREFER_YMM that is
set when the CPU is on this list.
This allows other code in arch/x86/, such as the CRC library code, to
apply the same exclusion list when deciding whether to execute 256-bit
or 512-bit optimized functions.
Note that full AVX512 support including ZMM registers is still exposed
to userspace and is still supported for in-kernel use. This flag just
indicates whether in-kernel code should prefer to use YMM registers.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210174540.161705-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Pull x86 cpuid updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Remove the less generic CPU matching infra around struct x86_cpu_desc
and use the generic struct x86_cpu_id thing
- Remove magic naked numbers for CPUID functions and use proper defines
of the prefix CPUID_LEAF_*. Consolidate some of the crazy use around
the tree
- Smaller cleanups and improvements
* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.14_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu: Make all all CPUID leaf names consistent
x86/fpu: Remove unnecessary CPUID level check
x86/fpu: Move CPUID leaf definitions to common code
x86/tsc: Remove CPUID "frequency" leaf magic numbers.
x86/tsc: Move away from TSC leaf magic numbers
x86/cpu: Move TSC CPUID leaf definition
x86/cpu: Refresh DCA leaf reading code
x86/cpu: Remove unnecessary MwAIT leaf checks
x86/cpu: Use MWAIT leaf definition
x86/cpu: Move MWAIT leaf definition to common header
x86/cpu: Remove 'x86_cpu_desc' infrastructure
x86/cpu: Move AMD erratum 1386 table over to 'x86_cpu_id'
x86/cpu: Replace PEBS use of 'x86_cpu_desc' use with 'x86_cpu_id'
x86/cpu: Expose only stepping min/max interface
x86/cpu: Introduce new microcode matching helper
x86/cpufeature: Document cpu_feature_enabled() as the default to use
x86/paravirt: Remove the WBINVD callback
x86/cpufeatures: Free up unused feature bits
Linux defined feature bits X86_FEATURE_P3 and X86_FEATURE_P4 are not
used anywhere. Commit f31d731e44 ("x86: use X86_FEATURE_NOPL in
alternatives") got rid of the last usage in 2008. Remove the related
mappings and code.
Just like all X86_FEATURE bits, the raw bit numbers can be exposed to
userspace via MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). There is a very small theoretical
chance of userspace getting confused if these bits got reassigned and
changed logical meaning. But these bits were never used for a device
table, so it's highly unlikely this will ever happen in practice.
[ dhansen: clarify userspace visibility of these bits ]
Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241107233000.2742619-1-sohil.mehta%40intel.com
Pull x86 splitlock updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file (Ravi Bangoria)
- Add split/bus lock support for AMD (Ravi Bangoria)
* tag 'x86-splitlock-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/bus_lock: Add support for AMD
x86/split_lock: Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file
There's an erratum that prevents the PAT from working correctly:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/pentium-dual-core-specification-update.pdf
# Document 316515 Version 010
The kernel currently disables PAT support on those CPUs, but it
does it with some magic numbers.
Replace the magic numbers with the new "IFM" macros.
Make the check refer to the last affected CPU (INTEL_CORE_YONAH)
rather than the first fixed one. This makes it easier to find the
documentation of the erratum since Intel documents where it is
broken and not where it is fixed.
I don't think the Pentium Pro (or Pentium II) is actually affected.
But the old check included them, so it can't hurt to keep doing the
same. I'm also not completely sure about the "Pentium M" CPUs
(models 0x9 and 0xd). But, again, they were included in in the
old checks and were close Pentium III derivatives, so are likely
affected.
While we're at it, revise the comment referring to the erratum name
and making sure it is a quote of the language from the actual errata
doc. That should make it easier to find in the future when the URL
inevitably changes.
Why bother with this in the first place? It actually gets rid of one
of the very few remaining direct references to c->x86{,_model}.
No change in functionality intended.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829220042.1007820-1-dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Add Bus Lock Detect (called Bus Lock Trap in AMD docs) support for AMD
platforms. Bus Lock Detect is enumerated with CPUID Fn0000_0007_ECX_x0
bit [24 / BUSLOCKTRAP]. It can be enabled through MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR.
When enabled, hardware clears DR6[11] and raises a #DB exception on
occurrence of Bus Lock if CPL > 0. More detail about the feature can be
found in AMD APM[1].
[1]: AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Pub. 40332, Rev. 4.07 - June
2023, Vol 2, 13.1.3.6 Bus Lock Trap
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=304653
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240808062937.1149-3-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Bus Lock Detect functionality on AMD platforms works identical to Intel.
Move split_lock and bus_lock specific code from intel.c to a dedicated
file so that it can be compiled and supported on non-Intel platforms.
Also, introduce CONFIG_X86_BUS_LOCK_DETECT, make it dependent on
CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL and add compilation dependency of the new bus_lock.c
file on CONFIG_X86_BUS_LOCK_DETECT.
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240808062937.1149-2-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Pull x86 cpu model updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Flip the logic to add feature names to /proc/cpuinfo to having to
explicitly specify the flag if there's a valid reason to show it in
/proc/cpuinfo
- Switch a bunch of Intel x86 model checking code to the new CPU model
defines
- Fixes and cleanups
* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu/intel: Drop stray FAM6 check with new Intel CPU model defines
x86/cpufeatures: Flip the /proc/cpuinfo appearance logic
x86/CPU/AMD: Always inline amd_clear_divider()
x86/mce/inject: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() line
perf/x86/rapl: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
x86/boot: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
x86/cpu: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
perf/x86/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
x86/virt/tdx: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
x86/PCI: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
x86/cpu/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
x86/platform/intel-mid: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
x86/pconfig: Remove unused MKTME pconfig code
x86/cpu: Remove useless work in detect_tme_early()
Intel CPUs have a MSR bit to limit CPUID enumeration to leaf two. If
this bit is set by the BIOS then CPUID evaluation including topology
enumeration does not work correctly as the evaluation code does not try
to analyze any leaf greater than two.
This went unnoticed before because the original topology code just
repeated evaluation several times and managed to overwrite the initial
limited information with the correct one later. The new evaluation code
does it once and therefore ends up with the limited and wrong
information.
Cure this by unlocking CPUID right before evaluating anything which
depends on the maximum CPUID leaf being greater than two instead of
rereading stuff after unlock.
Fixes: 22d63660c3 ("x86/cpu: Use common topology code for Intel")
Reported-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fd3f73dc-a86f-4bcf-9c60-43556a21eb42@googlemail.com
TME (Total Memory Encryption) and MKTME (Multi-Key Total Memory
Encryption) BIOS detection were introduced together here [1] and
are loosely coupled in the Intel CPU init code.
TME is a hardware only feature and its BIOS status is all that needs
to be shared with the kernel user: enabled or disabled. The TME
algorithm the BIOS is using and whether or not the kernel recognizes
that algorithm is useless to the kernel user.
MKTME is a hardware feature that requires kernel support. MKTME
detection code was added in advance of broader kernel support for
MKTME that never followed. So, rather than continuing to spew
needless and confusing messages about BIOS MKTME status, remove
most of the MKTME pieces from detect_tme_early().
Keep one useful message: alert the user when BIOS enabled MKTME
reduces the available physical address bits. Recovery of the MKTME
consumed bits requires a reboot with MKTME disabled in BIOS.
There is no functional change for the user, only a change in boot
messages. Below is one example when both TME and MKTME are enabled
in BIOS with AES_XTS_256 which is unknown to the detect tme code.
Before:
[] x86/tme: enabled by BIOS
[] x86/tme: Unknown policy is active: 0x2
[] x86/mktme: No known encryption algorithm is supported: 0x4
[] x86/mktme: enabled by BIOS
[] x86/mktme: 127 KeyIDs available
After:
[] x86/tme: enabled by BIOS
[] x86/mktme: BIOS enable: x86_phys_bits reduced by 8
[1]
commit cb06d8e3d0 ("x86/tme: Detect if TME and MKTME is activated by BIOS")
Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/86dfdf6ced8c9b790f9376bf6c7e22b5608f47c2.1715054189.git.alison.schofield%40intel.com
MKTME repurposes the high bit of physical address to key id for encryption
key and, even though MAXPHYADDR in CPUID[0x80000008] remains the same,
the valid bits in the MTRR mask register are based on the reduced number
of physical address bits.
detect_tme() in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c detects TME and subtracts
it from the total usable physical bits, but it is called too late.
Move the call to early_init_intel() so that it is called in setup_arch(),
before MTRRs are setup.
This fixes boot on TDX-enabled systems, which until now only worked with
"disable_mtrr_cleanup". Without the patch, the values written to the
MTRRs mask registers were 52-bit wide (e.g. 0x000fffff_80000800) and
the writes failed; with the patch, the values are 46-bit wide, which
matches the reduced MAXPHYADDR that is shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
Reported-by: Zixi Chen <zixchen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131230902.1867092-3-pbonzini%40redhat.com
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major
infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have
all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and
driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It
is worth re-iterating the value:
- this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array
- the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files
For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the
unneeded check for procname == NULL.
The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen
which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used
to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want
to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on
cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although
this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we
might as well roll through the fixes now"
* tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits)
watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param
proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array
powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
...
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)
Remove sentinel element from sld_sysctl and itmt_kern_table. This
removal is safe because register_sysctl_init and register_sysctl
implicitly use the array size in addition to checking for the sentinel.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> # for x86
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
There is really no point to have that in the CPUID evaluation code. Move it
into the Intel-specific microcode handling along with the data
structures, defines and helpers required by it. The exports need to stay
for IFS.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.719202319@linutronix.de
Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:
- Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement
- Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules
- My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.
Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.
Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:
The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
together all types of supported module memory types in one data
structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.
Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
specific dynamic debug information.
Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
so to:
a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&D on this area is
active with no clear solution in sight.
b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags
In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
8b41fc4454 ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").
Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
being part of a module, and if so define a new define
-DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].
A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
with no clear solution in sight [1].
In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:
./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)
You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.
Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.
The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.
The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
instead"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]
* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
module: extract patient module check into helper
modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
interconnect: remove module-related code
interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
...
Fundamentally semaphores are a counted primitive, but
DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() does not expose this and explicitly creates a
binary semaphore.
Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument and use that in the
few places that open-coded it using __SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[mcgrof: add some tribal knowledge about why some folks prefer
binary sempahores over mutexes]
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Pull x86 microcode and IFS updates from Borislav Petkov:
"The IFS (In-Field Scan) stuff goes through tip because the IFS driver
uses the same structures and similar functionality as the microcode
loader and it made sense to route it all through this branch so that
there are no conflicts.
- Add support for multiple testing sequences to the Intel In-Field
Scan driver in order to be able to run multiple different test
patterns. Rework things and remove the BROKEN dependency so that
the driver can be enabled (Jithu Joseph)
- Remove the subsys interface usage in the microcode loader because
it is not really needed
- A couple of smaller fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs
x86/microcode/intel: Do not print microcode revision and processor flags
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add missing kernel-doc entry
Revert "platform/x86/intel/ifs: Mark as BROKEN"
Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add current_batch sysfs entry
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove reload sysfs entry
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata validation
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Use generic microcode headers and functions
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata support
x86/microcode/intel: Use a reserved field for metasize
x86/microcode/intel: Add hdr_type to intel_microcode_sanity_check()
x86/microcode/intel: Reuse microcode_sanity_check()
x86/microcode/intel: Use appropriate type in microcode_sanity_check()
x86/microcode/intel: Reuse find_matching_signature()
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove memory allocation from load path
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove image loading during init
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Return a more appropriate error code
platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove unused selection
x86/microcode: Drop struct ucode_cpu_info.valid
...
Commit b041b525da ("x86/split_lock: Make life miserable for split lockers")
changed the way the split lock detector works when in "warn" mode;
basically, it not only shows the warn message, but also intentionally
introduces a slowdown through sleeping plus serialization mechanism
on such task. Based on discussions in [0], seems the warning alone
wasn't enough motivation for userspace developers to fix their
applications.
This slowdown is enough to totally break some proprietary (aka.
unfixable) userspace[1].
Happens that originally the proposal in [0] was to add a new mode
which would warns + slowdown the "split locking" task, keeping the
old warn mode untouched. In the end, that idea was discarded and
the regular/default "warn" mode now slows down the applications. This
is quite aggressive with regards proprietary/legacy programs that
basically are unable to properly run in kernel with this change.
While it is understandable that a malicious application could DoS
by split locking, it seems unacceptable to regress old/proprietary
userspace programs through a default configuration that previously
worked. An example of such breakage was reported in [1].
Add a sysctl to allow controlling the "misery mode" behavior, as per
Thomas suggestion on [2]. This way, users running legacy and/or
proprietary software are allowed to still execute them with a decent
performance while still observing the warning messages on kernel log.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220217012721.9694-1-tony.luck@intel.com/
[1] https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/2938
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87pmf4bter.ffs@tglx/
[ dhansen: minor changelog tweaks, including clarifying the actual
problem ]
Fixes: b041b525da ("x86/split_lock: Make life miserable for split lockers")
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andre Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221024200254.635256-1-gpiccoli%40igalia.com
Pull x86 cpu updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Remove the vendor check when selecting MWAIT as the default idle
state
- Respect idle=nomwait when supplied on the kernel cmdline
- Two small cleanups
* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu: Use MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE constants
x86: Fix comment for X86_FEATURE_ZEN
x86: Remove vendor checks from prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt
x86: Handle idle=nomwait cmdline properly for x86_idle
Instead of the magic numbers 1<<11 and 1<<12 use the constants
from msr-index.h. This makes it obvious where those bits
of MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE are consumed (and in fact that Linux
consumes them at all) to simple minds that grep for
MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_.*_UNAVAIL.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220719174714.2410374-1-pbonzini@redhat.com
