linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Vitaly Kuznetsov 9e52fc2b50 x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
There's a subtle bug in how some of the paravirt guest code handles
page table freeing on x86:

On x86 software page table walkers depend on the fact that remote TLB flush
does an IPI: walk is performed lockless but with interrupts disabled and in
case the page table is freed the freeing CPU will get blocked as remote TLB
flush is required. On other architectures which don't require an IPI to do
remote TLB flush we have an RCU-based mechanism (see
include/asm-generic/tlb.h for more details).

In virtualized environments we may want to override the ->flush_tlb_others
callback in pv_mmu_ops and use a hypercall asking the hypervisor to do a
remote TLB flush for us. This breaks the assumption about IPIs. Xen PV has
been doing this for years and the upcoming remote TLB flush for Hyper-V will
do it too.

This is not safe, as software page table walkers may step on an already
freed page.

Fix the bug by enabling the RCU-based page table freeing mechanism,
CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y.

Testing with kernbench and mmap/munmap microbenchmarks, and neither showed
any noticeable performance impact.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Jork Loeser <Jork.Loeser@microsoft.com>
Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828082251.5562-1-vkuznets@redhat.com
[ Rewrote/fixed/clarified the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-31 11:07:07 +02:00
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alpha tty: Fix TIOCGPTPEER ioctl definition 2017-07-17 17:04:41 +02:00
arc ARC fixes for 4.13-rc7 2017-08-21 13:30:36 -07:00
arm ARM: SoC fixes for 4.13 2017-08-24 14:01:18 -07:00
arm64 arm64: kaslr: Adjust the offset to avoid Image across alignment boundary 2017-08-22 18:15:42 +01:00
blackfin Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-21 10:41:19 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'work.uaccess-unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 11:17:52 -07:00
cris Kbuild updates for v4.13 (2nd) 2017-07-13 13:37:57 -07:00
frv FRV: tlbflush: move asmlinkage before return type 2017-07-12 16:26:04 -07:00
h8300 h8300: Add missing closing parenthesis in flat_get_addr_from_rp() 2017-07-16 09:24:06 -07:00
hexagon hexagon: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild 2017-07-10 03:43:26 +09:00
ia64 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm to pick up fixes and to fix conflicts 2017-08-26 09:19:13 +02:00
m32r Merge branch 'work.uaccess-unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 11:17:52 -07:00
m68k blackfin, m68k: Fix flat_set_persistent() for unsigned long to u32 changes 2017-07-16 09:24:06 -07:00
metag metag: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild 2017-07-10 03:43:30 +09:00
microblaze Merge branch 'work.uaccess-unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 11:17:52 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2017-08-13 15:34:28 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-21 10:41:19 -07:00
nios2 nios2: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild 2017-07-11 21:33:43 +09:00
openrisc openrisc: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild 2017-07-11 21:33:50 +09:00
parisc parisc: Define CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN 2017-07-31 17:51:27 +02:00
powerpc kernel/watchdog: fix Kconfig constraints for perf hardlockup watchdog 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
s390 mm: fix MADV_[FREE|DONTNEED] TLB flush miss problem 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
score Merge branch 'uaccess.strlen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-06 22:07:44 -07:00
sh mm: fix MADV_[FREE|DONTNEED] TLB flush miss problem 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
sparc sparc: kernel/pcic: silence gcc 7.x warning in pcibios_fixup_bus() 2017-08-21 13:57:22 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'work.uaccess-unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 11:17:52 -07:00
um mm: fix MADV_[FREE|DONTNEED] TLB flush miss problem 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild 2017-07-11 21:33:52 +09:00
x86 x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y) 2017-08-31 11:07:07 +02:00
xtensa Xtensa fixes for v4.13-rc4 2017-08-07 18:58:10 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig include/linux/string.h: add the option of fortified string.h functions 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00