Pull x86 cpu updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two small updates for the CPU code:
- Improve NUMA emulation
- Add the EPT_AD CPU feature bit"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpufeatures: Add EPT_AD feature bit
x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability
x86/numa_emulation: Fix emulated-to-physical node mapping
Pull x86 asm updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The lowlevel and ASM code updates for x86:
- Make stack trace unwinding more reliable
- ASM instruction updates for better code generation
- Various cleanups"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/entry/64: Add two more instruction suffixes
x86/asm/64: Use 32-bit XOR to zero registers
x86/build/vdso: Simplify 'cmd_vdso2c'
x86/build/vdso: Remove unused vdso-syms.lds
x86/stacktrace: Enable HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE for the ORC unwinder
x86/unwind/orc: Detect the end of the stack
x86/stacktrace: Do not fail for ORC with regs on stack
x86/stacktrace: Clarify the reliable success paths
x86/stacktrace: Remove STACKTRACE_DUMP_ONCE
x86/stacktrace: Do not unwind after user regs
x86/asm: Use CC_SET/CC_OUT in percpu_cmpxchg8b_double() to micro-optimize code generation
Pull perf update from Thomas Gleixner:
"The perf crowd presents:
Kernel updates:
- Removal of jprobes
- Cleanup and consolidatation the handling of kprobes
- Cleanup and consolidation of hardware breakpoints
- The usual pile of fixes and updates to PMUs and event descriptors
Tooling updates:
- Updates and improvements all over the place. Nothing outstanding,
just the (good) boring incremental grump work"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (103 commits)
perf trace: Do not require --no-syscalls to suppress strace like output
perf bpf: Include uapi/linux/bpf.h from the 'perf trace' script's bpf.h
perf tools: Allow overriding MAX_NR_CPUS at compile time
perf bpf: Show better message when failing to load an object
perf list: Unify metric group description format with PMU event description
perf vendor events arm64: Update ThunderX2 implementation defined pmu core events
perf cs-etm: Generate branch sample for CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet
perf cs-etm: Generate branch sample when receiving a CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet
perf cs-etm: Support dummy address value for CS_ETM_TRACE_ON packet
perf cs-etm: Fix start tracing packet handling
perf build: Fix installation directory for eBPF
perf c2c report: Fix crash for empty browser
perf tests: Fix indexing when invoking subtests
perf trace: Beautify the AF_INET & AF_INET6 'socket' syscall 'protocol' args
perf trace beauty: Add beautifiers for 'socket''s 'protocol' arg
perf trace beauty: Do not print NULL strarray entries
perf beauty: Add a generator for IPPROTO_ socket's protocol constants
tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/in.h
perf tests: Fix complex event name parsing
perf evlist: Fix error out while applying initial delay and LBR
...
Pull locking/atomics update from Thomas Gleixner:
"The locking, atomics and memory model brains delivered:
- A larger update to the atomics code which reworks the ordering
barriers, consolidates the atomic primitives, provides the new
atomic64_fetch_add_unless() primitive and cleans up the include
hell.
- Simplify cmpxchg() instrumentation and add instrumentation for
xchg() and cmpxchg_double().
- Updates to the memory model and documentation"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits)
locking/atomics: Rework ordering barriers
locking/atomics: Instrument cmpxchg_double*()
locking/atomics: Instrument xchg()
locking/atomics: Simplify cmpxchg() instrumentation
locking/atomics/x86: Reduce arch_cmpxchg64*() instrumentation
tools/memory-model: Rename litmus tests to comply to norm7
tools/memory-model/Documentation: Fix typo, smb->smp
sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() & co. memory-barrier guarantees
locking/spinlock, sched/core: Clarify requirements for smp_mb__after_spinlock()
sched/core: Use smp_mb() in wake_woken_function()
tools/memory-model: Add informal LKMM documentation to MAINTAINERS
locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation
tools/memory-model: Make scripts executable
tools/memory-model: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from model
tools/memory-model: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from recipes
locking/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update Korean translation to fix broken DMA vs. MMIO ordering example
MAINTAINERS: Add Daniel Lustig as an LKMM reviewer
tools/memory-model: Fix ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce name
tools/memory-model: Add litmus test for full multicopy atomicity
locking/refcount: Always allow checked forms
...
Some cases in THP like:
- MADV_FREE
- mprotect
- split
mark the PMD non present for temporarily to prevent races. The window for
an L1TF attack in these contexts is very small, but it wants to be fixed
for correctness sake.
Use the proper low level functions for pmd/pud_mknotpresent() to address
this.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
For kernel mappings PAGE_PROTNONE is not necessarily set for a non present
mapping, but the inversion logic explicitely checks for !PRESENT and
PROT_NONE.
Remove the PROT_NONE check and make the inversion unconditional for all not
present mappings.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Using privcmd_call() for a singleton multicall seems to be wrong, as
privcmd_call() is using stac()/clac() to enable hypervisor access to
Linux user space.
Even if currently not a problem (pv domains can't use SMAP while HVM
and PVH domains can't use multicalls) things might change when
PVH dom0 support is added to the kernel.
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
The kernel image is mapped into two places in the virtual address space
(addresses without KASLR, of course):
1. The kernel direct map (0xffff880000000000)
2. The "high kernel map" (0xffffffff81000000)
We actually execute out of #2. If we get the address of a kernel symbol,
it points to #2, but almost all physical-to-virtual translations point to
Parts of the "high kernel map" alias are mapped in the userspace page
tables with the Global bit for performance reasons. The parts that we map
to userspace do not (er, should not) have secrets. When PTI is enabled then
the global bit is usually not set in the high mapping and just used to
compensate for poor performance on systems which lack PCID.
This is fine, except that some areas in the kernel image that are adjacent
to the non-secret-containing areas are unused holes. We free these holes
back into the normal page allocator and reuse them as normal kernel memory.
The memory will, of course, get *used* via the normal map, but the alias
mapping is kept.
This otherwise unused alias mapping of the holes will, by default keep the
Global bit, be mapped out to userspace, and be vulnerable to Meltdown.
Remove the alias mapping of these pages entirely. This is likely to
fracture the 2M page mapping the kernel image near these areas, but this
should affect a minority of the area.
The pageattr code changes *all* aliases mapping the physical pages that it
operates on (by default). We only want to modify a single alias, so we
need to tweak its behavior.
This unmapping behavior is currently dependent on PTI being in place.
Going forward, we should at least consider doing this for all
configurations. Having an extra read-write alias for memory is not exactly
ideal for debugging things like random memory corruption and this does
undercut features like DEBUG_PAGEALLOC or future work like eXclusive Page
Frame Ownership (XPFO).
Before this patch:
current_kernel:---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
current_kernel-0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81e00000 14M ro PSE GLB x pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e11000 68K ro GLB x pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff81e11000-0xffffffff82000000 1980K RW NX pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82600000 6M ro PSE GLB NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff82600000-0xffffffff82c00000 6M RW PSE NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff82c00000-0xffffffff82e00000 2M RW NX pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffff83200000 4M RW PSE NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff83200000-0xffffffffa0000000 462M pmd
current_user:---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
current_user-0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd
current_user-0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81e00000 14M ro PSE GLB x pmd
current_user-0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e11000 68K ro GLB x pte
current_user-0xffffffff81e11000-0xffffffff82000000 1980K RW NX pte
current_user-0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82600000 6M ro PSE GLB NX pmd
current_user-0xffffffff82600000-0xffffffffa0000000 474M pmd
After this patch:
current_kernel:---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
current_kernel-0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81e00000 14M ro PSE GLB x pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e11000 68K ro GLB x pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff81e11000-0xffffffff82000000 1980K pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82400000 4M ro PSE GLB NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff82400000-0xffffffff82488000 544K ro NX pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82488000-0xffffffff82600000 1504K pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82600000-0xffffffff82c00000 6M RW PSE NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff82c00000-0xffffffff82c0d000 52K RW NX pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82c0d000-0xffffffff82dc0000 1740K pte
current_user:---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
current_user-0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd
current_user-0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81e00000 14M ro PSE GLB x pmd
current_user-0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e11000 68K ro GLB x pte
current_user-0xffffffff81e11000-0xffffffff82000000 1980K pte
current_user-0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82400000 4M ro PSE GLB NX pmd
current_user-0xffffffff82400000-0xffffffff82488000 544K ro NX pte
current_user-0xffffffff82488000-0xffffffff82600000 1504K pte
current_user-0xffffffff82600000-0xffffffffa0000000 474M pmd
[ tglx: Do not unmap on 32bit as there is only one mapping ]
Fixes: 0f561fce4d ("x86/pti: Enable global pages for shared areas")
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802225831.5F6A2BFC@viggo.jf.intel.com
Implement paravirtual apic hooks to enable PV IPIs for KVM if the "send IPI"
hypercall is available. The hypercall lets a guest send IPIs, with
at most 128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per
hypercall in 32-bit mode.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch is to provide a way for platforms to register hv tlb remote
flush callback and this helps to optimize operation of tlb flush
among vcpus for nested virtualization case.
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch is to add hyperv_nested_flush_guest_mapping support to trace
hvFlushGuestPhysicalAddressSpace hypercall.
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Hyper-V supports a pv hypercall HvFlushGuestPhysicalAddressSpace to
flush nested VM address space mapping in l1 hypervisor and it's to
reduce overhead of flushing ept tlb among vcpus. This patch is to
implement it.
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
It is a duplicate of X86_CR3_PCID_NOFLUSH. So just use that instead.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Adds support for storing multiple previous CR3/root_hpa pairs maintained
as an LRU cache, so that the lockless CR3 switch path can be used when
switching back to any of them.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This needs a minor bug fix. The updated patch is as follows.
Thanks,
Junaid
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kvm_mmu_invlpg() and kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva() only need to flush the TLB
entries for the specific guest virtual address, instead of flushing all
TLB entries associated with the VM.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
kvm_mmu_free_roots() now takes a mask specifying which roots to free, so
that either one of the roots (active/previous) can be individually freed
when needed.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This allows invlpg() to be called using either the active root_hpa
or the prev_root_hpa.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When PCIDs are enabled, the MSb of the source operand for a MOV-to-CR3
instruction indicates that the TLB doesn't need to be flushed.
This change enables this optimization for MOV-to-CR3s in the guest
that have been intercepted by KVM for shadow paging and are handled
within the fast CR3 switch path.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Implement support for INVPCID in shadow paging mode as well.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The KVM_REQ_LOAD_CR3 request loads the hardware CR3 using the
current root_hpa.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When using shadow paging, a CR3 switch in the guest results in a VM Exit.
In the common case, that VM exit doesn't require much processing by KVM.
However, it does acquire the MMU lock, which can start showing signs of
contention under some workloads even on a 2 VCPU VM when the guest is
using KPTI. Therefore, we add a fast path that avoids acquiring the MMU
lock in the most common cases e.g. when switching back and forth between
the kernel and user mode CR3s used by KPTI with no guest page table
changes in between.
For now, this fast path is implemented only for 64-bit guests and hosts
to avoid the handling of PDPTEs, but it can be extended later to 32-bit
guests and/or hosts as well.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
For nested virtualization L0 KVM is managing a bit of state for L2 guests,
this state can not be captured through the currently available IOCTLs. In
fact the state captured through all of these IOCTLs is usually a mix of L1
and L2 state. It is also dependent on whether the L2 guest was running at
the moment when the process was interrupted to save its state.
With this capability, there are two new vcpu ioctls: KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE
and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE. These can be used for saving and restoring a VM
that is in VMX operation.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
[karahmed@ - rename structs and functions and make them ready for AMD and
address previous comments.
- handle nested.smm state.
- rebase & a bit of refactoring.
- Merge 7/8 and 8/8 into one patch. ]
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
If the vCPU enters system management mode while running a nested guest,
RSM starts processing the vmentry while still in SMM. In that case,
however, the pages pointed to by the vmcs12 might be incorrectly
loaded from SMRAM. To avoid this, delay the handling of the pages
until just before the next vmentry. This is done with a new request
and a new entry in kvm_x86_ops, which we will be able to reuse for
nested VMX state migration.
Extracted from a patch by Jim Mattson and KarimAllah Ahmed.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When nested virtualization is in use, VMENTER operations from the nested
hypervisor into the nested guest will always be processed by the bare metal
hypervisor, and KVM's "conditional cache flushes" mode in particular does a
flush on nested vmentry. Therefore, include the "skip L1D flush on
vmentry" bit in KVM's suggested ARCH_CAPABILITIES setting.
Add the relevant Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Bit 3 of ARCH_CAPABILITIES tells a hypervisor that L1D flush on vmentry is
not needed. Add a new value to enum vmx_l1d_flush_state, which is used
either if there is no L1TF bug at all, or if bit 3 is set in ARCH_CAPABILITIES.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The last missing piece to having vmx_l1d_flush() take interrupts after
VMEXIT into account is to set the kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d per-cpu flag on
irq entry.
Issue calls to kvm_set_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d() from entering_irq(),
ipi_entering_ack_irq(), smp_reschedule_interrupt() and
uv_bau_message_interrupt().
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The next patch in this series will have to make the definition of
irq_cpustat_t available to entering_irq().
Inclusion of asm/hardirq.h into asm/apic.h would cause circular header
dependencies like
asm/smp.h
asm/apic.h
asm/hardirq.h
linux/irq.h
linux/topology.h
linux/smp.h
asm/smp.h
or
linux/gfp.h
linux/mmzone.h
asm/mmzone.h
asm/mmzone_64.h
asm/smp.h
asm/apic.h
asm/hardirq.h
linux/irq.h
linux/irqdesc.h
linux/kobject.h
linux/sysfs.h
linux/kernfs.h
linux/idr.h
linux/gfp.h
and others.
This causes compilation errors because of the header guards becoming
effective in the second inclusion: symbols/macros that had been defined
before wouldn't be available to intermediate headers in the #include chain
anymore.
A possible workaround would be to move the definition of irq_cpustat_t
into its own header and include that from both, asm/hardirq.h and
asm/apic.h.
However, this wouldn't solve the real problem, namely asm/harirq.h
unnecessarily pulling in all the linux/irq.h cruft: nothing in
asm/hardirq.h itself requires it. Also, note that there are some other
archs, like e.g. arm64, which don't have that #include in their
asm/hardirq.h.
Remove the linux/irq.h #include from x86' asm/hardirq.h.
Fix resulting compilation errors by adding appropriate #includes to *.c
files as needed.
Note that some of these *.c files could be cleaned up a bit wrt. to their
set of #includes, but that should better be done from separate patches, if
at all.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Part of the L1TF mitigation for vmx includes flushing the L1D cache upon
VMENTRY.
L1D flushes are costly and two modes of operations are provided to users:
"always" and the more selective "conditional" mode.
If operating in the latter, the cache would get flushed only if a host side
code path considered unconfined had been traversed. "Unconfined" in this
context means that it might have pulled in sensitive data like user data
or kernel crypto keys.
The need for L1D flushes is tracked by means of the per-vcpu flag
l1tf_flush_l1d. KVM exit handlers considered unconfined set it. A
vmx_l1d_flush() subsequently invoked before the next VMENTER will conduct a
L1d flush based on its value and reset that flag again.
Currently, interrupts delivered "normally" while in root operation between
VMEXIT and VMENTER are not taken into account. Part of the reason is that
these don't leave any traces and thus, the vmx code is unable to tell if
any such has happened.
As proposed by Paolo Bonzini, prepare for tracking all interrupts by
introducing a new per-cpu flag, "kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d". It will be in
strong analogy to the per-vcpu ->l1tf_flush_l1d.
A later patch will make interrupt handlers set it.
For the sake of cache locality, group kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d into x86'
per-cpu irq_cpustat_t as suggested by Peter Zijlstra.
Provide the helpers kvm_set_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d(),
kvm_clear_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d() and kvm_get_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d(). Make them
trivial resp. non-existent for !CONFIG_KVM_INTEL as appropriate.
Let vmx_l1d_flush() handle kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d in the same way as
l1tf_flush_l1d.
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
An upcoming patch will extend KVM's L1TF mitigation in conditional mode
to also cover interrupts after VMEXITs. For tracking those, stores to a
new per-cpu flag from interrupt handlers will become necessary.
In order to improve cache locality, this new flag will be added to x86's
irq_cpustat_t.
Make some space available there by shrinking the ->softirq_pending bitfield
from 32 to 16 bits: the number of bits actually used is only NR_SOFTIRQS,
i.e. 10.
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Future Intel processors will support "Enhanced IBRS" which is an "always
on" mode i.e. IBRS bit in SPEC_CTRL MSR is enabled once and never
disabled.
From the specification [1]:
"With enhanced IBRS, the predicted targets of indirect branches
executed cannot be controlled by software that was executed in a less
privileged predictor mode or on another logical processor. As a
result, software operating on a processor with enhanced IBRS need not
use WRMSR to set IA32_SPEC_CTRL.IBRS after every transition to a more
privileged predictor mode. Software can isolate predictor modes
effectively simply by setting the bit once. Software need not disable
enhanced IBRS prior to entering a sleep state such as MWAIT or HLT."
If Enhanced IBRS is supported by the processor then use it as the
preferred spectre v2 mitigation mechanism instead of Retpoline. Intel's
Retpoline white paper [2] states:
"Retpoline is known to be an effective branch target injection (Spectre
variant 2) mitigation on Intel processors belonging to family 6
(enumerated by the CPUID instruction) that do not have support for
enhanced IBRS. On processors that support enhanced IBRS, it should be
used for mitigation instead of retpoline."
The reason why Enhanced IBRS is the recommended mitigation on processors
which support it is that these processors also support CET which
provides a defense against ROP attacks. Retpoline is very similar to ROP
techniques and might trigger false positives in the CET defense.
If Enhanced IBRS is selected as the mitigation technique for spectre v2,
the IBRS bit in SPEC_CTRL MSR is set once at boot time and never
cleared. Kernel also has to make sure that IBRS bit remains set after
VMEXIT because the guest might have cleared the bit. This is already
covered by the existing x86_spec_ctrl_set_guest() and
x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host() speculation control functions.
Enhanced IBRS still requires IBPB for full mitigation.
[1] Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf
[2] Retpoline-A-Branch-Target-Injection-Mitigation.pdf
Both documents are available at:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511
Originally-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim C Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533148945-24095-1-git-send-email-sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com
Some Intel processors have an EPT feature whereby the accessed & dirty bits
in EPT entries can be updated by HW. MSR IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP exposes the
presence of this capability.
There is no point in trying to use that new feature bit in the VMX code as
VMX needs to read the MSR anyway to access other bits, but having the
feature bit for EPT_AD in place helps virtualization management as it
exposes "ept_ad" in /proc/cpuinfo/$proc/flags if the feature is present.
[ tglx: Amended changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180801180657.138051-1-pshier@google.com
Get rid of ISA specific code from vmus_drv.c which is common code.
Fixes: 81b18bce48 ("Drivers: HV: Send one page worth of kmsg dump over Hyper-V during panic")
Signed-off-by: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull x86 pti fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"An APM fix, and a BTS hardware-tracing fix related to PTI changes"
* 'x86-pti-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apm: Don't access __preempt_count with zeroed fs
x86/events/intel/ds: Fix bts_interrupt_threshold alignment
