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authorDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2018-02-11 11:49:47 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-02-13 09:04:54 +0100
commitdde3036d62ba3375840b10ab9ec0d568fd773b07 (patch)
tree4cae26275c84cfe9660540c81b5bca2531c74cb7 /arch/x86/entry/calling.h
parent30907fd13bb593202574bb20af58d67c70a1ee14 (diff)
x86/entry/64: Get rid of the ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK and SAVE_AND_CLEAR_REGS macros
Previously, error_entry() and paranoid_entry() saved the GP registers onto stack space previously allocated by its callers. Combine these two steps in the callers, and use the generic PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS macro for that. This adds a significant amount ot text size. However, Ingo Molnar points out that: "these numbers also _very_ significantly over-represent the extra footprint. The assumptions that resulted in us compressing the IRQ entry code have changed very significantly with the new x86 IRQ allocation code we introduced in the last year: - IRQ vectors are usually populated in tightly clustered groups. With our new vector allocator code the typical per CPU allocation percentage on x86 systems is ~3 device vectors and ~10 fixed vectors out of ~220 vectors - i.e. a very low ~6% utilization (!). [...] The days where we allocated a lot of vectors on every CPU and the compression of the IRQ entry code text mattered are over. - Another issue is that only a small minority of vectors is frequent enough to actually matter to cache utilization in practice: 3-4 key IPIs and 1-2 device IRQs at most - and those vectors tend to be tightly clustered as well into about two groups, and are probably already on 2-3 cache lines in practice. For the common case of 'cache cold' IRQs it's the depth of the call chain and the fragmentation of the resulting I$ that should be the main performance limit - not the overall size of it. - The CPU side cost of IRQ delivery is still very expensive even in the best, most cached case, as in 'over a thousand cycles'. So much stuff is done that maybe contemporary x86 IRQ entry microcode already prefetches the IDT entry and its expected call target address."[*] [*] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180208094710.qnjixhm6hybebdv7@gmail.com The "testb $3, CS(%rsp)" instruction in the idtentry macro does not need modification. Previously, %rsp was manually decreased by 15*8; with this patch, %rsp is decreased by 15 pushq instructions. [jpoimboe@redhat.com: unwind hint improvements] Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> 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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180211104949.12992-7-linux@dominikbrodowski.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry/calling.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/calling.h42
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
index d6a97e2945ee..59675010c9a0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
@@ -97,46 +97,6 @@ For 32-bit we have the following conventions - kernel is built with
#define SIZEOF_PTREGS 21*8
- .macro ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK
- addq $-(15*8), %rsp
- .endm
-
- .macro SAVE_AND_CLEAR_REGS offset=0
- /*
- * Save registers and sanitize registers of values that a
- * speculation attack might otherwise want to exploit. The
- * lower registers are likely clobbered well before they
- * could be put to use in a speculative execution gadget.
- * Interleave XOR with PUSH for better uop scheduling:
- */
- movq %rdi, 14*8+\offset(%rsp)
- movq %rsi, 13*8+\offset(%rsp)
- movq %rdx, 12*8+\offset(%rsp)
- movq %rcx, 11*8+\offset(%rsp)
- movq %rax, 10*8+\offset(%rsp)
- movq %r8, 9*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorq %r8, %r8 /* nospec r8 */
- movq %r9, 8*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorq %r9, %r9 /* nospec r9 */
- movq %r10, 7*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorq %r10, %r10 /* nospec r10 */
- movq %r11, 6*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorq %r11, %r11 /* nospec r11 */
- movq %rbx, 5*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorl %ebx, %ebx /* nospec rbx */
- movq %rbp, 4*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorl %ebp, %ebp /* nospec rbp */
- movq %r12, 3*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorq %r12, %r12 /* nospec r12 */
- movq %r13, 2*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorq %r13, %r13 /* nospec r13 */
- movq %r14, 1*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorq %r14, %r14 /* nospec r14 */
- movq %r15, 0*8+\offset(%rsp)
- xorq %r15, %r15 /* nospec r15 */
- UNWIND_HINT_REGS offset=\offset
- .endm
-
.macro PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS rdx=%rdx rax=%rax
/*
* Push registers and sanitize registers of values that a
@@ -211,7 +171,7 @@ For 32-bit we have the following conventions - kernel is built with
* is just setting the LSB, which makes it an invalid stack address and is also
* a signal to the unwinder that it's a pt_regs pointer in disguise.
*
- * NOTE: This macro must be used *after* SAVE_AND_CLEAR_REGS because it corrupts
+ * NOTE: This macro must be used *after* PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS because it corrupts
* the original rbp.
*/
.macro ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER ptregs_offset=0