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2017-08-17	x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages	Tony Luck
	Speculative processor accesses may reference any memory that has a valid page table entry. While a speculative access won't generate a machine check, it will log the error in a machine check bank. That could cause escalation of a subsequent error since the overflow bit will be then set in the machine check bank status register. Code has to be double-plus-tricky to avoid mentioning the 1:1 virtual address of the page we want to map out otherwise we may trigger the very problem we are trying to avoid. We use a non-canonical address that passes through the usual Linux table walking code to get to the same "pte". Thanks to Dave Hansen for reviewing several iterations of this. Also see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149860136413338&w=2 Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) <elliott@hpe.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816171803.28342-1-tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-07	x86/asm: Optimize clear_page()	Borislav Petkov
	Currently, we CALL clear_page() which then JMPs to the proper function chosen by the alternatives. What we should do instead is CALL the proper function directly. (This was something Ingo suggested a while ago). So let's do that. Measuring our favourite kernel build workload shows that there are no significant changes in performance. AMD === -- /tmp/before 2017-02-09 18:01:46.451961188 +0100 ++ /tmp/after 2017-02-09 18:01:54.883961175 +0100 @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (5 runs): - 1028960.373643 cpu-clock (msec) # 6.000 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.41% ) + 1023086.018961 cpu-clock (msec) # 6.000 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.20% ) - 518,744 context-switches # 0.504 K/sec ( +- 1.04% ) + 518,254 context-switches # 0.507 K/sec ( +- 1.01% ) - 38,112 cpu-migrations # 0.037 K/sec ( +- 1.95% ) + 37,917 cpu-migrations # 0.037 K/sec ( +- 1.02% ) - 20,874,266 page-faults # 0.020 M/sec ( +- 0.07% ) + 20,918,897 page-faults # 0.020 M/sec ( +- 0.18% ) - 2,043,646,230,667 cycles # 1.986 GHz ( +- 0.14% ) (66.67%) + 2,045,305,584,032 cycles # 1.999 GHz ( +- 0.16% ) (66.67%) - 553,698,855,431 stalled-cycles-frontend # 27.09% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.07% ) (66.67%) + 555,099,401,413 stalled-cycles-frontend # 27.14% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.13% ) (66.67%) - 621,544,286,390 stalled-cycles-backend # 30.41% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.39% ) (66.67%) + 621,371,430,254 stalled-cycles-backend # 30.38% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.32% ) (66.67%) - 1,738,364,431,659 instructions # 0.85 insn per cycle + 1,739,895,771,901 instructions # 0.85 insn per cycle - # 0.36 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.11% ) (66.67%) + # 0.36 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.13% ) (66.67%) - 391,170,943,850 branches # 380.161 M/sec ( +- 0.13% ) (66.67%) + 391,398,551,757 branches # 382.567 M/sec ( +- 0.13% ) (66.67%) - 22,567,810,411 branch-misses # 5.77% of all branches ( +- 0.11% ) (66.67%) + 22,574,726,683 branch-misses # 5.77% of all branches ( +- 0.13% ) (66.67%) - 171.480741921 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.41% ) + 170.509229451 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.20% ) Intel ===== -- /tmp/before 2017-02-09 20:36:19.851947473 +0100 ++ /tmp/after 2017-02-09 20:36:30.151947458 +0100 @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (5 runs): - 2207248.598126 cpu-clock (msec) # 8.000 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.69% ) + 2213300.106631 cpu-clock (msec) # 8.000 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.73% ) - 899,342 context-switches # 0.407 K/sec ( +- 0.68% ) + 898,381 context-switches # 0.406 K/sec ( +- 0.79% ) - 80,553 cpu-migrations # 0.036 K/sec ( +- 1.13% ) + 80,979 cpu-migrations # 0.037 K/sec ( +- 1.11% ) - 36,171,148 page-faults # 0.016 M/sec ( +- 0.02% ) + 36,179,791 page-faults # 0.016 M/sec ( +- 0.02% ) - 6,665,288,826,484 cycles # 3.020 GHz ( +- 0.07% ) (83.33%) + 6,671,638,410,799 cycles # 3.014 GHz ( +- 0.06% ) (83.33%) - 5,065,975,115,197 stalled-cycles-frontend # 76.01% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.11% ) (83.33%) + 5,076,835,183,223 stalled-cycles-frontend # 76.10% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.11% ) (83.33%) - 3,841,556,350,614 stalled-cycles-backend # 57.64% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.13% ) (66.67%) + 3,852,823,974,333 stalled-cycles-backend # 57.75% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.12% ) (66.67%) - 4,148,398,171,079 instructions # 0.62 insn per cycle + 4,148,997,156,059 instructions # 0.62 insn per cycle - # 1.22 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.10% ) (83.33%) + # 1.22 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.11% ) (83.33%) - 887,187,118,591 branches # 401.943 M/sec ( +- 0.09% ) (83.33%) + 887,271,341,121 branches # 400.882 M/sec ( +- 0.11% ) (83.33%) - 30,139,439,034 branch-misses # 3.40% of all branches ( +- 0.09% ) (83.33%) + 30,134,864,997 branch-misses # 3.40% of all branches ( +- 0.06% ) (83.33%) - 275.904405540 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.69% ) + 276.660352016 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.73% ) allmodconfig vmlinux size grows by a ~1Kb but that's fine - we optimize our calling of the clear_page variants. text data bss dec hex filename 9051979 23067670 27009024 59128673 3863b61 vmlinux 9053000 23067670 27009024 59129694 3863f5e vmlinux.clear_page Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170215111927.emdgxf2pide3kwro@pd.tnic Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-11-03	x86_64,vsyscall: Make vsyscall emulation configurable	Andy Lutomirski
	This adds CONFIG_X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION, guarded by CONFIG_EXPERT. Turning it off completely disables vsyscall emulation, saving ~3.5k for vsyscall_64.c, 4k for vsyscall_emu_64.S (the fake vsyscall page), some tiny amount of core mm code that supports a gate area, and possibly 4k for a wasted pagetable. The latter is because the vsyscall addresses are misaligned and fit poorly in the fixmap. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/406db88b8dd5f0cbbf38216d11be34bbb43c7eae.1414618407.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-08-08	arm64,ia64,ppc,s390,sh,tile,um,x86,mm: remove default gate area	Andy Lutomirski
	The core mm code will provide a default gate area based on FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END if !defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) && defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR). This default is only useful for ia64. arm64, ppc, s390, sh, tile, 64-bit UML, and x86_32 have their own code just to disable it. arm, 32-bit UML, and x86_64 have gate areas, but they have their own implementations. This gets rid of the default and moves the code into ia64. This should save some code on architectures without a gate area: it's now possible to inline the gate_area functions in the default case. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Acked-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [in principle] Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [for um] Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> [for arm64] Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <Nathan_Lynch@mentor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-11-16	x86: Make it so that __pa_symbol can only process kernel symbols on x86_64	Alexander Duyck
	I submitted an earlier patch that make __phys_addr an inline. This obviously results in an increase in the code size. One step I can take to reduce that is to make it so that the __pa_symbol call does a direct translation for kernel addresses instead of covering all of virtual memory. On my system this reduced the size for __pa_symbol from 5 instructions totalling 30 bytes to 3 instructions totalling 16 bytes. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121116215356.8521.92472.stgit@ahduyck-cp1.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-11-16	x86: Improve __phys_addr performance by making use of carry flags and inlining	Alexander Duyck
	This patch is meant to improve overall system performance when making use of the __phys_addr call. To do this I have implemented several changes. First if CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not defined __phys_addr is made an inline, similar to how this is currently handled in 32 bit. However in order to do this it is required to export phys_base so that it is available if __phys_addr is used in kernel modules. The second change was to streamline the code by making use of the carry flag on an add operation instead of performing a compare on a 64 bit value. The advantage to this is that it allows us to significantly reduce the overall size of the call. On my Xeon E5 system the entire __phys_addr inline call consumes a little less than 32 bytes and 5 instructions. I also applied similar logic to the debug version of the function. My testing shows that the debug version of the function with this patch applied is slightly faster than the non-debug version without the patch. Finally I also applied the same logic changes to __virt_addr_valid since it used the same general code flow as __phys_addr and could achieve similar gains though these changes. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121116215315.8521.46270.stgit@ahduyck-cp1.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-11-16	x86: Move some contents of page_64_types.h into pgtable_64.h and page_64.h	Alexander Duyck
	This patch is meant to clean-up the fact that we have several functions in page_64_types.h which really don't belong there. I found this issue when I had tried to replace __phys_addr with an inline function. It resulted in the realmode bits generating compile warnings about types. In order to resolve that I am relocating the address translation to page_64.h since this is in keeping with where these functions are located in 32 bit. In addtion I have relocated several functions defined in init_64.c to pgtable_64.h as this seems to be where most of the functions related to memory initialization were already located. [ hpa: added missing #include <asm/pgtable.h> to apic_numachip.c, as reported by Yinghai Lu. ] Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121116215244.8521.31505.stgit@ahduyck-cp1.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale-asia.com>
2009-02-11	x86: create _types.h counterparts for page*.h	Jeremy Fitzhardinge
	Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
2009-01-19	x86-64: Convert irqstacks to per-cpu	Brian Gerst
	Move the irqstackptr variable from the PDA to per-cpu. Make the stacks themselves per-cpu, removing some specific allocation code. Add a seperate flag (is_boot_cpu) to simplify the per-cpu boot adjustments. tj: * sprinkle some underbars around. * irq_stack_ptr is not used till traps_init(), no reason to initialize it early. On SMP, just leaving it NULL till proper initialization in setup_per_cpu_areas() works. Dropped is_boot_cpu and early irq_stack_ptr initialization. * do DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU(char[IRQ_STACK_SIZE], irq_stack) instead of (char, irq_stack[IRQ_STACK_SIZE]). Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2008-10-22	x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards	H. Peter Anvin
	Change header guards named "ASM_X86__" to "_ASM_X86_" since: a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless. b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22	x86, um: ... and asm-x86 move	Al Viro
	Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>