x86/cpu: Probe the behavior of nulling out a segment at boot time
AMD and Intel do different things when writing zero to a segment selector. Since neither vendor documents the behavior well and it's easy to test the behavior, try nulling fs to see what happens. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> 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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/61588ba0e0df35beafd363dc8b68a4c5878ef095.1460075211.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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#define X86_BUG_FXSAVE_LEAK X86_BUG(6) /* FXSAVE leaks FOP/FIP/FOP */
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#define X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR X86_BUG(7) /* AAI65, CLFLUSH required before MONITOR */
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#define X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS X86_BUG(8) /* SYSRET doesn't fix up SS attrs */
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#define X86_BUG_NULL_SEG X86_BUG(9) /* Nulling a selector preserves the base */
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#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
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/*
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#endif
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}
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static void detect_null_seg_behavior(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
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{
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#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
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/*
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* Empirically, writing zero to a segment selector on AMD does
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* not clear the base, whereas writing zero to a segment
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* selector on Intel does clear the base. Intel's behavior
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* allows slightly faster context switches in the common case
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* where GS is unused by the prev and next threads.
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*
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* Since neither vendor documents this anywhere that I can see,
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* detect it directly instead of hardcoding the choice by
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* vendor.
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*
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* I've designated AMD's behavior as the "bug" because it's
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* counterintuitive and less friendly.
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*/
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unsigned long old_base, tmp;
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rdmsrl(MSR_FS_BASE, old_base);
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wrmsrl(MSR_FS_BASE, 1);
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loadsegment(fs, 0);
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rdmsrl(MSR_FS_BASE, tmp);
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if (tmp != 0)
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set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_NULL_SEG);
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wrmsrl(MSR_FS_BASE, old_base);
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#endif
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}
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static void generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
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{
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c->extended_cpuid_level = 0;
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get_model_name(c); /* Default name */
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detect_nopl(c);
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detect_null_seg_behavior(c);
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}
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static void x86_init_cache_qos(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
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