On some CPUs we can prevent the Meltdown vulnerability by flushing the
L1-D cache on exit from kernel to user mode, and from hypervisor to
guest.
This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9. At
this time we do not know the status of the vulnerability on other CPUs
such as the 970 (Apple G5), pasemi CPUs (AmigaOne X1000) or Freescale
CPUs. As more information comes to light we can enable this, or other
mechanisms on those CPUs.
The vulnerability occurs when the load of an architecturally
inaccessible memory region (eg. userspace load of kernel memory) is
speculatively executed to the point where its result can influence the
address of a subsequent speculatively executed load.
In order for that to happen, the first load must hit in the L1,
because before the load is sent to the L2 the permission check is
performed. Therefore if no kernel addresses hit in the L1 the
vulnerability can not occur. We can ensure that is the case by
flushing the L1 whenever we return to userspace. Similarly for
hypervisor vs guest.
In order to flush the L1-D cache on exit, we add a section of nops at
each (h)rfi location that returns to a lower privileged context, and
patch that with some sequence. Newer firmwares are able to advertise
to us that there is a special nop instruction that flushes the L1-D.
If we do not see that advertised, we fall back to doing a displacement
flush in software.
For guest kernels we support migration between some CPU versions, and
different CPUs may use different flush instructions. So that we are
prepared to migrate to a machine with a different flush instruction
activated, we may have to patch more than one flush instruction at
boot if the hypervisor tells us to.
In the end this patch is mostly the work of Nicholas Piggin and
Michael Ellerman. However a cast of thousands contributed to analysis
of the issue, earlier versions of the patch, back ports testing etc.
Many thanks to all of them.
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
.llong is an undocumented PPC specific directive. The generic
equivalent is .quad, but even better (because it's self describing) is
.8byte.
Convert all .llong directives to .8byte.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The idle workaround does not need to load PACATOC, and it does not
need to be called within a nested function that requires LR to be
saved.
Load the PACATOC at entry to the idle wakeup. It does not matter which
PACA this comes from, so it's okay to call before the workaround. Then
apply the workaround to get the right PACA.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
We cannot do those initializations from apply_feature_fixups() as
this function runs in a very restricted environment on 32-bit where
the kernel isn't running at its linked address and the PTRRELOC()
macro must be used for any global accesss.
Instead, split them into a separtate steup_feature_keys() function
which is called in a more suitable spot on ppc32.
Fixes: 309b315b6e ("powerpc: Call jump_label_init() in apply_feature_fixups()")
Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
32 and 64-bit do a similar set of calls early on, we move it all to
a single common function to make the boot code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This removes MMU_FTR_TLBIE_206 as we can now use CPU_FTR_HVMODE_206. It
also changes the logic to select which tlbie to use to be based on this
new CPU feature bit.
This also duplicates the ASM_FTR_IF/SET/CLR defines for CPU features
(copied from MMU features).
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Rework exception macros a bit to split offset from vector and add
some basic support for HDEC, HDSI, HISI and a few more.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When we create an alternative feature section, the else case must be the
same size or smaller than the body. This is because when we patch the
else case in we just overwrite the body, so there must be room.
Up to now we just did this by inspection, but it's quite easy to enforce
it in the assembler, so we should.
The only change is to add the ifgt block, but that effects the alignment
of the tabs and so the whole macro is modified.
Also add a test, but #if 0 it because we don't want to break the build.
Anyone who's modifying the feature macros should enable the test.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton's commit enabling the use of the lwsync fixup mechanism on 64-bit
breaks modules. The lwsync fixup section uses .long instead of the
FTR_ENTRY_OFFSET macro used by other fixups sections, and thus will
generate 32-bit relocations that our module loader cannot resolve.
This changes it to use the same type as other feature sections.
Note however that we might want to consider using 32-bit for all the
feature fixup offsets and add support for R_PPC_REL32 to module_64.c
instead as that would reduce the size of the kernel image. I'll leave
that as an exercise for the reader for now...
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc: Enable MMU feature sections for inline asm
This adds the ability to do MMU feature sections for inline asm.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We're soon running out of CPU features and I need to add some new
ones for various MMU related bits, so this patch separates the MMU
features from the CPU features. I moved over the 32-bit MMU related
ones, added base features for MMU type families, but didn't move
over any 64-bit only feature yet.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a
mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm
Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman