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  3. 24 Jul, 2018 1 commit
  5. 19 Jul, 2018 2 commits
  7. 15 Jul, 2018 1 commit
    • Jiri Kosina's avatar
      x86/speculation/l1tf: Unbreak !__HAVE_ARCH_PFN_MODIFY_ALLOWED architectures · 6c26fcd2
      Jiri Kosina authored 
      pfn_modify_allowed() and arch_has_pfn_modify_check() are outside of the 
!__ASSEMBLY__ section in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h, which confuses 
assembler on archs that don't have __HAVE_ARCH_PFN_MODIFY_ALLOWED (e.g. 
ia64) and breaks build:

    include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: Assembler messages:
    include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:538: Error: Unknown opcode `static inline bool pfn_modify_allowed(unsigned long pfn,pgprot_t prot)'
    include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:540: Error: Unknown opcode `return true'
    include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:543: Error: Unknown opcode `static inline bool arch_has_pfn_modify_check(void)'
    include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:545: Error: Unknown opcode `return false'
    arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S:69: Error: `mov' does not fit into bundle

Move those two static inlines into the !__ASSEMBLY__ section so that they 
don't confuse the asm build pass.

Fixes: 42e4089c ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Disallow non privileged high MMIO PROT_NONE mappings")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      6c26fcd2
  9. 13 Jul, 2018 11 commits
  11. 09 Jul, 2018 1 commit
  13. 04 Jul, 2018 10 commits
  15. 02 Jul, 2018 2 commits
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      cpu/hotplug: Boot HT siblings at least once · 0cc3cd21
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      Due to the way Machine Check Exceptions work on X86 hyperthreads it's
required to boot up _all_ logical cores at least once in order to set the
CR4.MCE bit.

So instead of ignoring the sibling threads right away, let them boot up
once so they can configure themselves. After they came out of the initial
boot stage check whether its a "secondary" sibling and cancel the operation
which puts the CPU back into offline state.
Reported-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      0cc3cd21
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      Revert "x86/apic: Ignore secondary threads if nosmt=force" · 506a66f3
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      Dave Hansen reported, that it's outright dangerous to keep SMT siblings
disabled completely so they are stuck in the BIOS and wait for SIPI.

The reason is that Machine Check Exceptions are broadcasted to siblings and
the soft disabled sibling has CR4.MCE = 0. If a MCE is delivered to a
logical core with CR4.MCE = 0, it asserts IERR#, which shuts down or
reboots the machine. The MCE chapter in the SDM contains the following
blurb:

    Because the logical processors within a physical package are tightly
    coupled with respect to shared hardware resources, both logical
    processors are notified of machine check errors that occur within a
    given physical processor. If machine-check exceptions are enabled when
    a fatal error is reported, all the logical processors within a physical
    package are dispatched to the machine-check exception handler. If
    machine-check exceptions are disabled, the logical processors enter the
    shutdown state and assert the IERR# signal. When enabling machine-check
    exceptions, the MCE flag in control register CR4 should be set for each
    logical processor.

Reverting the commit which ignores siblings at enumeration time solves only
half of the problem. The core cpuhotplug logic needs to be adjusted as
well.

This thoughtful engineered mechanism also turns the boot process on all
Intel HT enabled systems into a MCE lottery. MCE is enabled on the boot CPU
before the secondary CPUs are brought up. Depending on the number of
physical cores the window in which this situation can happen is smaller or
larger. On a HSW-EX it's about 750ms:

MCE is enabled on the boot CPU:

[    0.244017] mce: CPU supports 22 MCE banks

The corresponding sibling #72 boots:

[    1.008005] .... node  #0, CPUs:    #72

That means if an MCE hits on physical core 0 (logical CPUs 0 and 72)
between these two points the machine is going to shutdown. At least it's a
known safe state.

It's obvious that the early boot can be hit by an MCE as well and then runs
into the same situation because MCEs are not yet enabled on the boot CPU.
But after enabling them on the boot CPU, it does not make any sense to
prevent the kernel from recovering.

Adjust the nosmt kernel parameter documentation as well.

Reverts: 2207def7 ("x86/apic: Ignore secondary threads if nosmt=force")
Reported-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      506a66f3
  17. 29 Jun, 2018 1 commit
  19. 27 Jun, 2018 1 commit
    • Vlastimil Babka's avatar
      x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect PAE swap entries against L1TF · 0d0f6249
      Vlastimil Babka authored 
      The PAE 3-level paging code currently doesn't mitigate L1TF by flipping the
offset bits, and uses the high PTE word, thus bits 32-36 for type, 37-63 for
offset. The lower word is zeroed, thus systems with less than 4GB memory are
safe. With 4GB to 128GB the swap type selects the memory locations vulnerable
to L1TF; with even more memory, also the swap offfset influences the address.
This might be a problem with 32bit PAE guests running on large 64bit hosts.

By continuing to keep the whole swap entry in either high or low 32bit word of
PTE we would limit the swap size too much. Thus this patch uses the whole PAE
PTE with the same layout as the 64bit version does. The macros just become a
bit tricky since they assume the arch-dependent swp_entry_t to be 32bit.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      0d0f6249
  21. 22 Jun, 2018 1 commit
  23. 21 Jun, 2018 5 commits
    • Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk's avatar
      x86/cpufeatures: Add detection of L1D cache flush support. · 11e34e64
      Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk authored 
      336996-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf defines a new MSR
(IA32_FLUSH_CMD) which is detected by CPUID.7.EDX[28]=1 bit being set.

This new MSR "gives software a way to invalidate structures with finer
granularity than other architectual methods like WBINVD."

A copy of this document is available at
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      11e34e64
    • Vlastimil Babka's avatar
      x86/speculation/l1tf: Extend 64bit swap file size limit · 1a7ed1ba
      Vlastimil Babka authored 
      The previous patch has limited swap file size so that large offsets cannot
clear bits above MAX_PA/2 in the pte and interfere with L1TF mitigation.

It assumed that offsets are encoded starting with bit 12, same as pfn. But
on x86_64, offsets are encoded starting with bit 9.

Thus the limit can be raised by 3 bits. That means 16TB with 42bit MAX_PA
and 256TB with 46bit MAX_PA.

Fixes: 377eeaa8 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2")
Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      1a7ed1ba
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86/apic: Ignore secondary threads if nosmt=force · 2207def7
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      nosmt on the kernel command line merely prevents the onlining of the
secondary SMT siblings.

nosmt=force makes the APIC detection code ignore the secondary SMT siblings
completely, so they even do not show up as possible CPUs. That reduces the
amount of memory allocations for per cpu variables and saves other
resources from being allocated too large.

This is not fully equivalent to disabling SMT in the BIOS because the low
level SMT enabling in the BIOS can result in partitioning of resources
between the siblings, which is not undone by just ignoring them. Some CPUs
can use the full resources when their sibling is not onlined, but this is
depending on the CPU family and model and it's not well documented whether
this applies to all partitioned resources. That means depending on the
workload disabling SMT in the BIOS might result in better performance.

Linus analysis of the Intel manual:

  The intel optimization manual is not very clear on what the partitioning
  rules are.

  I find:

    "In general, the buffers for staging instructions between major pipe
     stages  are partitioned. These buffers include µop queues after the
     execution trace cache, the queues after the register rename stage, the
     reorder buffer which stages instructions for retirement, and the load
     and store buffers.

     In the case of load and store buffers, partitioning also provided an
     easier implementation to maintain memory ordering for each logical
     processor and detect memory ordering violations"

  but some of that partitioning may be relaxed if the HT thread is "not
  active":

    "In Intel microarchitecture code name Sandy Bridge, the micro-op queue
     is statically partitioned to provide 28 entries for each logical
     processor,  irrespective of software executing in single thread or
     multiple threads. If one logical processor is not active in Intel
     microarchitecture code name Ivy Bridge, then a single thread executing
     on that processor  core can use the 56 entries in the micro-op queue"

  but I do not know what "not active" means, and how dynamic it is. Some of
  that partitioning may be entirely static and depend on the early BIOS
  disabling of HT, and even if we park the cores, the resources will just be
  wasted.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      2207def7
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86/cpu/AMD: Evaluate smp_num_siblings early · 1e1d7e25
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      To support force disabling of SMT it's required to know the number of
thread siblings early. amd_get_topology() cannot be called before the APIC
driver is selected, so split out the part which initializes
smp_num_siblings and invoke it from amd_early_init().
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      1e1d7e25
    • Borislav Petkov's avatar
      x86/CPU/AMD: Do not check CPUID max ext level before parsing SMP info · 119bff8a
      Borislav Petkov authored 
      Old code used to check whether CPUID ext max level is >= 0x80000008 because
that last leaf contains the number of cores of the physical CPU.  The three
functions called there now do not depend on that leaf anymore so the check
can go.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      119bff8a
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