Impact: low priority bug fix
This removes part of a a patch I added myself some time ago. After some
consideration the patch was a bad idea. In particular it stopped machine check
exceptions during code patching.
To quote the comment:
* MCEs only happen when something got corrupted and in this
* case we must do something about the corruption.
* Ignoring it is worse than a unlikely patching race.
* Also machine checks tend to be broadcast and if one CPU
* goes into machine check the others follow quickly, so we don't
* expect a machine check to cause undue problems during to code
* patching.
So undo the machine check related parts of
8f4e956b31 NMIs are still disabled.
This only removes code, the only additions are a new comment.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
num_possible_cpus() can be > 1 when disabled CPUs have been accounted.
Disabled CPUs are not in the cpu_present_map, so we can use
num_present_cpus() as a safe indicator to switch to UP alternatives.
Reported-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use X86_FEATURE_NOPL to determine if it is safe to use P6 NOPs in
alternatives. Also, replace table and loop with simple if statement.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
If a kernel thread is preempted in single-cpu mode right after the NOP (nop
about to be turned into a lock prefix), then we CPU hotplug a CPU, and then the
thread is scheduled back again, a SMP-unsafe atomic operation will be used on
shared SMP variables, leading to corruption. No corruption would happen in the
reverse case : going from SMP to UP is ok because we split a bit instruction
into tiny pieces, which does not present this condition.
Changing the 0x90 (single-byte nop) currently used into a 0x3E DS segment
override prefix should fix this issue. Since the default of the atomic
instructions is to use the DS segment anyway, it should not affect the
behavior.
The exception to this are references that use ESP/RSP and EBP/RBP as
the base register (they will use the SS segment), however, in Linux
(a) DS == SS at all times, and (b) we do not distinguish between
segment violations reported as #SS as opposed to #GP, so there is no
need to disassemble the instruction to figure out the suitable segment.
This patch assumes that the 0x3E prefix will leave atomic operations as-is (thus
assuming they normally touch data in the DS segment). Since there seem to be no
obvious ill-use of other segment override prefixes for atomic operations, it
should be safe. It can be verified with a quick
grep -r LOCK_PREFIX include/asm-x86/
grep -A 1 -r LOCK_PREFIX arch/x86/
Taken from
This source :
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System
Instructions
States
"Instructions that Reference a Non-Stack Segment—If an instruction encoding
references any base register other than rBP or rSP, or if an instruction
contains an immediate offset, the default segment is the data segment (DS).
These instructions can use the segment-override prefix to select one of the
non-default segments, as shown in Table 1-5."
Therefore, forcing the DS segment on the atomic operations, which already use
the DS segment, should not change.
This source :
http://wiki.osdev.org/X86_Instruction_Encoding
States
"In 64-bit the CS, SS, DS and ES segment overrides are ignored."
Confirmed by "AMD 64-Bit Technology" A.7
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/x86-64_overview.pdf
"In 64-bit mode, the DS, ES, SS and CS segment-override prefixes have no effect.
These four prefixes are no longer treated as segment-override prefixes in the
context of multipleprefix rules. Instead, they are treated as null prefixes."
This patch applies to 2.6.27-rc2, but would also have to be applied to earlier
kernels (2.6.26, 2.6.25, ...).
Performance impact of the fix : tests done on "xaddq" and "xaddl" shows it
actually improves performances on Intel Xeon, AMD64, Pentium M. It does not
change the performance on Pentium II, Pentium 3 and Pentium 4.
Xeon E5405 2.0GHz :
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 162207948
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 170755422
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 170000118 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 472012134
AMD64 2.0GHz :
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 146674549
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 150273860
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 149982382 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 270000690
Pentium 4 3.0GHz
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 290001195
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 310000560
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 310000575 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 1050103740
Pentium M 2.0GHz
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 180000523
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 320000345
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 310000374 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 480000357
Pentium 3 550MHz
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 510000231
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 620000128
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 620000110 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 800000088
Pentium II 350MHz
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 200833494
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 340000130
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 340000126 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 530000078
Speed test modules can be found at
http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/tests/kernel/test-prefix-speed-32.chttp://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/tests/kernel/test-prefix-speed.c
Macro-benchmarks
2.0GHz E5405 Core 2 dual Quad-Core Xeon
Summary
* replace smp lock prefixes with DS segment selector prefixes
no lock prefix (s) with lock prefix (s) Speedup
make -j1 kernel/ 33.94 +/- 0.07 34.91 +/- 0.27 2.8 %
hackbench 50 2.99 +/- 0.01 3.74 +/- 0.01 25.1 %
* replace smp lock prefixes with 0x90 nops
no lock prefix (s) with lock prefix (s) Speedup
make -j1 kernel/ 34.16 +/- 0.32 34.91 +/- 0.27 2.2 %
hackbench 50 3.00 +/- 0.01 3.74 +/- 0.01 24.7 %
Detail :
1 CPU, replace smp lock prefixes with DS segment selector prefixes
make -j1 kernel/
real 0m34.067s
user 0m30.630s
sys 0m2.980s
real 0m33.867s
user 0m30.582s
sys 0m3.024s
real 0m33.939s
user 0m30.738s
sys 0m2.876s
real 0m33.913s
user 0m30.806s
sys 0m2.808s
avg : 33.94s
std. dev. : 0.07s
hackbench 50
Time: 2.978
Time: 2.982
Time: 3.010
Time: 2.984
Time: 2.982
avg : 2.99
std. dev. : 0.01
1 CPU, noreplace-smp
make -j1 kernel/
real 0m35.326s
user 0m30.630s
sys 0m3.260s
real 0m34.325s
user 0m30.802s
sys 0m3.084s
real 0m35.568s
user 0m30.722s
sys 0m3.168s
real 0m34.435s
user 0m30.886s
sys 0m2.996s
avg.: 34.91s
std. dev. : 0.27s
hackbench 50
Time: 3.733
Time: 3.750
Time: 3.761
Time: 3.737
Time: 3.741
avg : 3.74
std. dev. : 0.01
1 CPU, replace smp lock prefixes with 0x90 nops
make -j1 kernel/
real 0m34.139s
user 0m30.782s
sys 0m2.820s
real 0m34.010s
user 0m30.630s
sys 0m2.976s
real 0m34.777s
user 0m30.658s
sys 0m2.916s
real 0m33.924s
user 0m30.634s
sys 0m2.924s
real 0m33.962s
user 0m30.774s
sys 0m2.800s
real 0m34.141s
user 0m30.770s
sys 0m2.828s
avg : 34.16
std. dev. : 0.32
hackbench 50
Time: 2.999
Time: 2.994
Time: 3.004
Time: 2.991
Time: 2.988
avg : 3.00
std. dev. : 0.01
I did more runs (20 runs of each) to compare the nop case to the DS
prefix case. Results in seconds. They actually does not seems to show a
significant difference.
NOP
34.155
33.955
34.012
35.299
35.679
34.141
33.995
35.016
34.254
33.957
33.957
34.008
35.013
34.494
33.893
34.295
34.314
34.854
33.991
34.132
DS
34.080
34.304
34.374
35.095
34.291
34.135
33.940
34.208
35.276
34.288
33.861
33.898
34.610
34.709
33.851
34.256
35.161
34.283
33.865
35.078
Used http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/ttest1.cfm?Format=C to do the
T-test (yeah, I'm lazy) :
Group Group One (DS prefix) Group Two (nops)
Mean 34.37815 34.37070
SD 0.46108 0.51905
SEM 0.10310 0.11606
N 20 20
P value and statistical significance:
The two-tailed P value equals 0.9620
By conventional criteria, this difference is considered to be not statistically significant.
Confidence interval:
The mean of Group One minus Group Two equals 0.00745
95% confidence interval of this difference: From -0.30682 to 0.32172
Intermediate values used in calculations:
t = 0.0480
df = 38
standard error of difference = 0.155
So, unless these calculus are completely bogus, the difference between the nop
and the DS case seems not to be statistically significant.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CC: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
CC: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
text_poke is sleepable.
The original fix by Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch patches the call to mcount with nops instead
of a jmp over the mcount call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Clean up the codepath, remove alignment restrictions and do sanity
checking of the end result, to make sure we patched the right site.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel_text_address returns true even for modules which is not wanted
in text_poke. Use core_kernel_text instead.
This is a regression introduced in e587cadd8f
which caused occasionaly crashes after suspend/resume.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: pageexec@freemail.hu
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
>
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>
> > The shadow vmap for DEBUG_RODATA kernel text modification uses
> > virt_to_page to get the pages from the pointer address.
> >
> > However, I think vmalloc_to_page would be required in case the page is
> > used for modules.
> >
> > Since only the core kernel text is marked read-only, use
> > kernel_text_address() to make sure we only shadow map the core kernel
> > text, not modules.
>
> actually, i think we should mark module text readonly too.
>
Yes, but in the meantime, the x86 tree would need this patch to make
kprobes work correctly on modules.
I suspect that without this fix, with the enhanced hotplug and kprobes
patch, kprobes will use text_poke to insert breakpoints in modules
(vmalloced pages used), which will map the wrong pages and corrupt
random kernel locations instead of updating the correct page.
Work that would write protect the module pages should clearly be done,
but it can come in a later time. We have to make sure we interact
correctly with the page allocation debugging, as an example.
Here is the patch against x86.git 2.6.25-rc5 :
The shadow vmap for DEBUG_RODATA kernel text modification uses virt_to_page to
get the pages from the pointer address.
However, I think vmalloc_to_page would be required in case the page is used for
modules.
Since only the core kernel text is marked read-only, use kernel_text_address()
to make sure we only shadow map the core kernel text, not modules.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix a memcpy that should be a text_poke (in apply_alternatives).
Use kernel_wp_save/kernel_wp_restore in text_poke to support DEBUG_RODATA
correctly and so the CPU HOTPLUG special case can be removed.
Add text_poke_early, for alternatives and paravirt boot-time and module load
time patching.
Changelog:
- Fix text_set and text_poke alignment check (mixed up bitwise and and or)
- Remove text_set
- Export add_nops, so it can be used by others.
- Document text_poke_early.
- Remove clflush, since it breaks some VIA architectures and is not strictly
necessary.
- Add kerneldoc to text_poke and text_poke_early.
- Create a second vmap instead of using the WP bit to support Xen and VMI.
- Move local_irq disable within text_poke and text_poke_early to be able to
be sleepable in these functions.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: pageexec@freemail.hu
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
gcc expects all toplevel assembly to return to the original section type.
The code in alteranative.c does not do this. This caused some strange bugs
in sched-devel where code would end up in the .rodata section and when
the kernel sets the NX bit on all .rodata, the kernel would crash when
executing this code.
This patch adds a .previous marker to return the code back to the
original section.
Credit goes to Andrew Pinski for telling me it wasn't a gcc bug but a
bug in the toplevel asm code in the kernel. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An older binutils bug caused us to not fix up alternatives.
This problem involved mutex.c but we dont do lockdep section tricks
there anymore, so this workaround is moot. Keep the printk nevertheless,
just in case ... We can remove that later on.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
On VMs implemented using JITs that cache translated code changing the lock
prefixes is a quite costly operation that forces the JIT to throw away and
retranslate a lot of code.
Previously a SMP kernel would rewrite the locks once for each CPU which
is quite unnecessary. This patch changes the code to never switch at boot in
the normal case (SMP kernel booting with >1 CPU) or only once for SMP kernel
on UP.
This makes a significant difference in boot up performance on AMD SimNow!
Also I expect it to be a little faster on native systems too because a smp
switch does a lot of text_poke()s which each synchronize the pipeline.
v1->v2: Rename max_cpus
v1->v2: Fix off by one in UP check (Thomas Gleixner)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The patch to suppress bitops-related warnings added a pile of ugly
casts. Many of these were related to the management of x86 CPU
capabilities. Clean these up by adding specific set/clear_cpu_cap
macros, and use them consistently.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS. This means that
we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus.
When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes
3,145,728 bytes.
These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code. An
additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu
index. This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the
per_cpu index. It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo().
cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP
case.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add support for and use the multi-byte NOPs recently documented to be
available on all PentiumPro and later processors.
This patch only applies cleanly on top of the "x86: misc.
constifications" patch sent earlier.
[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
include/asm-x86/processor_32.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-x86/processor_64.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Miscellaneous x86 stuff that can live in .rodata.
[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'xen-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
xfs: eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting Xen
xen: add some debug output for failed multicalls
xen: fix incorrect vcpu_register_vcpu_info hypercall argument
xen: ask the hypervisor how much space it needs reserved
xen: lock pte pages while pinning/unpinning
xen: deal with stale cr3 values when unpinning pagetables
xen: add batch completion callbacks
xen: yield to IPI target if necessary
Clean up duplicate includes in arch/i386/xen/
remove dead code in pgtable_cache_init
paravirt: clean up lazy mode handling
paravirt: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops
This patch refactors the paravirt_ops structure into groups of
functionally related ops:
pv_info - random info, rather than function entrypoints
pv_init_ops - functions used at boot time (some for module_init too)
pv_misc_ops - lazy mode, which didn't fit well anywhere else
pv_time_ops - time-related functions
pv_cpu_ops - various privileged instruction ops
pv_irq_ops - operations for managing interrupt state
pv_apic_ops - APIC operations
pv_mmu_ops - operations for managing pagetables
There are several motivations for this:
1. Some of these ops will be general to all x86, and some will be
i386/x86-64 specific. This makes it easier to share common stuff
while allowing separate implementations where needed.
2. At the moment we must export all of paravirt_ops, but modules only
need selected parts of it. This allows us to export on a case by case
basis (and also choose which export license we want to apply).
3. Functional groupings make things a bit more readable.
Struct paravirt_ops is now only used as a template to generate
patch-site identifiers, and to extract function pointers for inserting
into jmp/calls when patching. It is only instantiated when needed.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguory <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
> Maybe I just picked a bad time to try, but...
>
> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c: In function 'apply_alternatives':
> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: 'VSYSCALL_START' undeclared (first use in this function)
> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: for each function it appears in.)
> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:191: error: 'VSYSCALL_END' undeclared (first use in this function)
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/alternative.o] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
Try this.
Include missing header for vsyscall.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
