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authorGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>2022-10-24 23:02:54 +0300
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2022-11-10 21:14:22 +0300
commit727209376f4998bc84db1d5d8af15afea846a92b (patch)
tree2b2fded84745e2f1e1dae384f3f09cc4fb4e154a /arch
parentf0c4d9fc9cc9462659728d168387191387e903cc (diff)
downloadlinux-727209376f4998bc84db1d5d8af15afea846a92b.tar.xz
x86/split_lock: Add sysctl to control the misery mode
Commit b041b525dab9 ("x86/split_lock: Make life miserable for split lockers") changed the way the split lock detector works when in "warn" mode; basically, it not only shows the warn message, but also intentionally introduces a slowdown through sleeping plus serialization mechanism on such task. Based on discussions in [0], seems the warning alone wasn't enough motivation for userspace developers to fix their applications. This slowdown is enough to totally break some proprietary (aka. unfixable) userspace[1]. Happens that originally the proposal in [0] was to add a new mode which would warns + slowdown the "split locking" task, keeping the old warn mode untouched. In the end, that idea was discarded and the regular/default "warn" mode now slows down the applications. This is quite aggressive with regards proprietary/legacy programs that basically are unable to properly run in kernel with this change. While it is understandable that a malicious application could DoS by split locking, it seems unacceptable to regress old/proprietary userspace programs through a default configuration that previously worked. An example of such breakage was reported in [1]. Add a sysctl to allow controlling the "misery mode" behavior, as per Thomas suggestion on [2]. This way, users running legacy and/or proprietary software are allowed to still execute them with a decent performance while still observing the warning messages on kernel log. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220217012721.9694-1-tony.luck@intel.com/ [1] https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/2938 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87pmf4bter.ffs@tglx/ [ dhansen: minor changelog tweaks, including clarifying the actual problem ] Fixes: b041b525dab9 ("x86/split_lock: Make life miserable for split lockers") Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: Andre Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221024200254.635256-1-gpiccoli%40igalia.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c63
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 2d7ea5480ec3..427899650483 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -1034,8 +1034,32 @@ static const struct {
static struct ratelimit_state bld_ratelimit;
+static unsigned int sysctl_sld_mitigate = 1;
static DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(buslock_sem);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
+static struct ctl_table sld_sysctls[] = {
+ {
+ .procname = "split_lock_mitigate",
+ .data = &sysctl_sld_mitigate,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_douintvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
+ .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
+ },
+ {}
+};
+
+static int __init sld_mitigate_sysctl_init(void)
+{
+ register_sysctl_init("kernel", sld_sysctls);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+late_initcall(sld_mitigate_sysctl_init);
+#endif
+
static inline bool match_option(const char *arg, int arglen, const char *opt)
{
int len = strlen(opt), ratelimit;
@@ -1146,12 +1170,20 @@ static void split_lock_init(void)
split_lock_verify_msr(sld_state != sld_off);
}
-static void __split_lock_reenable(struct work_struct *work)
+static void __split_lock_reenable_unlock(struct work_struct *work)
{
sld_update_msr(true);
up(&buslock_sem);
}
+static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(sl_reenable_unlock, __split_lock_reenable_unlock);
+
+static void __split_lock_reenable(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ sld_update_msr(true);
+}
+static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(sl_reenable, __split_lock_reenable);
+
/*
* If a CPU goes offline with pending delayed work to re-enable split lock
* detection then the delayed work will be executed on some other CPU. That
@@ -1169,10 +1201,9 @@ static int splitlock_cpu_offline(unsigned int cpu)
return 0;
}
-static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(split_lock_reenable, __split_lock_reenable);
-
static void split_lock_warn(unsigned long ip)
{
+ struct delayed_work *work;
int cpu;
if (!current->reported_split_lock)
@@ -1180,14 +1211,26 @@ static void split_lock_warn(unsigned long ip)
current->comm, current->pid, ip);
current->reported_split_lock = 1;
- /* misery factor #1, sleep 10ms before trying to execute split lock */
- if (msleep_interruptible(10) > 0)
- return;
- /* Misery factor #2, only allow one buslocked disabled core at a time */
- if (down_interruptible(&buslock_sem) == -EINTR)
- return;
+ if (sysctl_sld_mitigate) {
+ /*
+ * misery factor #1:
+ * sleep 10ms before trying to execute split lock.
+ */
+ if (msleep_interruptible(10) > 0)
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Misery factor #2:
+ * only allow one buslocked disabled core at a time.
+ */
+ if (down_interruptible(&buslock_sem) == -EINTR)
+ return;
+ work = &sl_reenable_unlock;
+ } else {
+ work = &sl_reenable;
+ }
+
cpu = get_cpu();
- schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, &split_lock_reenable, 2);
+ schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, work, 2);
/* Disable split lock detection on this CPU to make progress */
sld_update_msr(false);