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x86/pti: Enable global pages for shared areas 

The entry/exit text and cpu_entry_area are mapped into userspace and
the kernel.  But, they are not _PAGE_GLOBAL.  This creates unnecessary
TLB misses.

Add the _PAGE_GLOBAL flag for these areas.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205515.2977EE7D@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Dave Hansen 2018-04-06 13:55:15 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 639d6aafe4
commit 0f561fce4d
2 changed files with 35 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c
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@ -27,8 +27,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_cpu_entry_area);
void cea_set_pte(void *cea_vaddr, phys_addr_t pa, pgprot_t flags)
{
unsigned long va = (unsigned long) cea_vaddr;
pte_t pte = pfn_pte(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags);
set_pte_vaddr(va, pfn_pte(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags));
/*
* The cpu_entry_area is shared between the user and kernel
* page tables. All of its ptes can safely be global.
* _PAGE_GLOBAL gets reused to help indicate PROT_NONE for
* non-present PTEs, so be careful not to set it in that
* case to avoid confusion.
*/
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE) &&
(pgprot_val(flags) & _PAGE_PRESENT))
pte = pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_GLOBAL);
set_pte_vaddr(va, pte);
}
static void __init

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arch/x86/mm/pti.c
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@ -299,6 +299,27 @@ pti_clone_pmds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, pmdval_t clear)
if (WARN_ON(!target_pmd))
return;
/*
* Only clone present PMDs. This ensures only setting
* _PAGE_GLOBAL on present PMDs. This should only be
* called on well-known addresses anyway, so a non-
* present PMD would be a surprise.
*/
if (WARN_ON(!(pmd_flags(*pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT)))
return;
/*
* Setting 'target_pmd' below creates a mapping in both
* the user and kernel page tables. It is effectively
* global, so set it as global in both copies. Note:
* the X86_FEATURE_PGE check is not _required_ because
* the CPU ignores _PAGE_GLOBAL when PGE is not
* supported. The check keeps consistentency with
* code that only set this bit when supported.
*/
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE))
*pmd = pmd_set_flags(*pmd, _PAGE_GLOBAL);
/*
* Copy the PMD. That is, the kernelmode and usermode
* tables will share the last-level page tables of this
@ -348,7 +369,7 @@ static void __init pti_clone_entry_text(void)
{
pti_clone_pmds((unsigned long) __entry_text_start,
(unsigned long) __irqentry_text_end,
_PAGE_RW | _PAGE_GLOBAL);
_PAGE_RW);
}
/*