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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2018-08-21 17:37:55 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-15 09:43:01 +0200
commitf3913ee267da0722c3731997545a6c4747323779 (patch)
treeb5fd687f360a48fe760b03426df290e887f5b740 /scripts
parent414bd73f37bd3306506ad53f94be6dbdef327a01 (diff)
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>
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