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| author | Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> | 2018-08-21 17:37:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-09-15 09:43:01 +0200 |
| commit | f3913ee267da0722c3731997545a6c4747323779 (patch) | |
| tree | b5fd687f360a48fe760b03426df290e887f5b740 /arch | |
| parent | 414bd73f37bd3306506ad53f94be6dbdef327a01 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 7 |
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 5c686382d84b..095dbc25122a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ #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. @@ -142,10 +144,7 @@ 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; } |