Commit d584644a authored by Juergen Gross's avatar Juergen Gross Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in native_ptep_get_and_clear

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797563

commit b2d7a075 upstream.

Using only 32-bit writes for the pte will result in an intermediate
L1TF vulnerable PTE. When running as a Xen PV guest this will at once
switch the guest to shadow mode resulting in a loss of performance.

Use arch_atomic64_xchg() instead which will perform the requested
operation atomically with all 64 bits.

Some performance considerations according to:

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/ad/dc/Intel-Xeon-Scalable-Processor-throughput-latency.pdf

The main number should be the latency, as there is no tight loop around
native_ptep_get_and_clear().

"lock cmpxchg8b" has a latency of 20 cycles, while "lock xchg" (with a
memory operand) isn't mentioned in that document. "lock xadd" (with xadd
having 3 cycles less latency than xchg) has a latency of 11, so we can
assume a latency of 14 for "lock xchg".
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
[ Atomic operations gained an arch_ prefix in 8bf705d1
("locking/atomic/x86: Switch atomic.h to use atomic-instrumented.h") so
s/arch_atomic64_xchg/atomic64_xchg/ for backport.]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent bf67075d
#ifndef _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_3LEVEL_H
#define _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_3LEVEL_H
#include <asm/atomic64_32.h>
/*
* Intel Physical Address Extension (PAE) Mode - three-level page
* tables on PPro+ CPUs.
......@@ -142,10 +144,7 @@ static inline pte_t native_ptep_get_and_clear(pte_t *ptep)
{
pte_t res;
/* xchg acts as a barrier before the setting of the high bits */
res.pte_low = xchg(&ptep->pte_low, 0);
res.pte_high = ptep->pte_high;
ptep->pte_high = 0;
res.pte = (pteval_t)atomic64_xchg((atomic64_t *)ptep, 0);
return res;
}
......
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