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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2018-08-21 18:37:55 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-15 10:45:35 +0300
commitd85c2999a7b5e924172f0cc21f5804bbb1f34d69 (patch)
treee43ac1c8c2c60efa2cb63fa012a0087598800dfd /arch/x86/include
parent685a452ce3bfd030700a0360483ce59515facc41 (diff)
downloadlinux-d85c2999a7b5e924172f0cc21f5804bbb1f34d69.tar.xz
x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in native_ptep_get_and_clear
commit b2d7a075a1ccef2fb321d595802190c8e9b39004 upstream. Using only 32-bit writes for the pte will result in an intermediate L1TF vulnerable PTE. When running as a Xen PV guest this will at once switch the guest to shadow mode resulting in a loss of performance. Use arch_atomic64_xchg() instead which will perform the requested operation atomically with all 64 bits. Some performance considerations according to: https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/ad/dc/Intel-Xeon-Scalable-Processor-throughput-latency.pdf The main number should be the latency, as there is no tight loop around native_ptep_get_and_clear(). "lock cmpxchg8b" has a latency of 20 cycles, while "lock xchg" (with a memory operand) isn't mentioned in that document. "lock xadd" (with xadd having 3 cycles less latency than xchg) has a latency of 11, so we can assume a latency of 14 for "lock xchg". Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Tested-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> [ Atomic operations gained an arch_ prefix in 8bf705d13039 ("locking/atomic/x86: Switch atomic.h to use atomic-instrumented.h") so s/arch_atomic64_xchg/atomic64_xchg/ for backport.] Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
index 9dc19b4a2a87..c5d4931d1ef9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
#ifndef _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_3LEVEL_H
#define _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_3LEVEL_H
+#include <asm/atomic64_32.h>
+
/*
* Intel Physical Address Extension (PAE) Mode - three-level page
* tables on PPro+ CPUs.
@@ -147,10 +149,7 @@ static inline pte_t native_ptep_get_and_clear(pte_t *ptep)
{
pte_t res;
- /* xchg acts as a barrier before the setting of the high bits */
- res.pte_low = xchg(&ptep->pte_low, 0);
- res.pte_high = ptep->pte_high;
- ptep->pte_high = 0;
+ res.pte = (pteval_t)atomic64_xchg((atomic64_t *)ptep, 0);
return res;
}