Re: [PATCH] x86/TSC: Use RDTSCP

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

Ok,

I have something which looks like it works here, even with the pentium3
qemu CPU. I'll be hammering on it in the coming days but if you wanna
give it a try, here's a conglomerate patch:

---
From 0c6adce02d2e7f3b5bbdc4cbe3eb3dae99448def Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 18:54:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] WIP

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h         | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c      |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index ea9886651c39..db8ebe5dd5be 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -114,6 +114,16 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
 		"(" alt_max_short(alt_rlen(num1), alt_rlen(num2)) " - (" alt_slen ")), 0x90\n"	\
 	alt_end_marker ":\n"
 
+#define OLDINSTR_3(oldinsn, n1, n2, n3)								\
+	"# ALT: oldinstr\n"										\
+	"661:\n\t" oldinsn "\n662:\n"								\
+	"# ALT: padding\n"										\
+	".skip -((" alt_max_short(alt_max_short(alt_rlen(n1), alt_rlen(n2)), alt_rlen(n3))	\
+		" - (" alt_slen ")) > 0) * "							\
+		"(" alt_max_short(alt_max_short(alt_rlen(n1), alt_rlen(n2)), alt_rlen(n3))	\
+		" - (" alt_slen ")), 0x90\n"							\
+	alt_end_marker ":\n"
+
 #define ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feature, num)					      \
 	" .long 661b - .\n"				/* label           */ \
 	" .long " b_replacement(num)"f - .\n"		/* new instruction */ \
@@ -122,7 +132,8 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
 	" .byte " alt_rlen(num) "\n"			/* replacement len */ \
 	" .byte " alt_pad_len "\n"			/* pad len */
 
-#define ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinstr, feature, num)	/* replacement */     \
+#define ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinstr, feature, num)	/* replacement */	\
+	"# ALT: replacement " #num "\n"						\
 	b_replacement(num)":\n\t" newinstr "\n" e_replacement(num) ":\n\t"
 
 /* alternative assembly primitive: */
@@ -146,6 +157,19 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
 	ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinstr2, feature2, 2)			\
 	".popsection\n"
 
+#define ALTERNATIVE_3(oldinsn, newinsn1, feat1, newinsn2, feat2, newinsn3, feat3) \
+	OLDINSTR_3(oldinsn, 1, 2, 3)						\
+	".pushsection .altinstructions,\"a\"\n"					\
+	ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feat1, 1)						\
+	ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feat2, 2)						\
+	ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feat3, 3)						\
+	".popsection\n"								\
+	".pushsection .altinstr_replacement, \"ax\"\n"				\
+	ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinsn1, feat1, 1)				\
+	ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinsn2, feat2, 2)				\
+	ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinsn3, feat3, 3)				\
+	".popsection\n"
+
 /*
  * Alternative instructions for different CPU types or capabilities.
  *
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
index 91e4cf189914..5cc3930cb465 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long long rdtsc(void)
  */
 static __always_inline unsigned long long rdtsc_ordered(void)
 {
+	DECLARE_ARGS(val, low, high);
+
 	/*
 	 * The RDTSC instruction is not ordered relative to memory
 	 * access.  The Intel SDM and the AMD APM are both vague on this
@@ -227,9 +229,19 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long long rdtsc_ordered(void)
 	 * ordering guarantees as reading from a global memory location
 	 * that some other imaginary CPU is updating continuously with a
 	 * time stamp.
+	 *
+	 * Thus, use the preferred barrier on the respective CPU, aiming for
+	 * RDTSCP as the default.
 	 */
-	barrier_nospec();
-	return rdtsc();
+	asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE_3("rdtsc",
+				   "mfence; rdtsc", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
+				   "lfence; rdtsc", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC,
+				   "rdtscp", X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP)
+			: EAX_EDX_RET(val, low, high)
+			/* RDTSCP clobbers ECX with MSR_TSC_AUX. */
+			:: "ecx");
+
+	return EAX_EDX_VAL(val, low, high);
 }
 
 static inline unsigned long long native_read_pmc(int counter)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index ebeac487a20c..d458c7973c56 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -393,10 +393,10 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start,
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		DPRINTK("feat: %d*32+%d, old: (%px len: %d), repl: (%px, len: %d), pad: %d",
+		DPRINTK("feat: %d*32+%d, old: (%pS (%px) len: %d), repl: (%px, len: %d), pad: %d",
 			a->cpuid >> 5,
 			a->cpuid & 0x1f,
-			instr, a->instrlen,
+			instr, instr, a->instrlen,
 			replacement, a->replacementlen, a->padlen);
 
 		DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%px: old_insn: ", instr);
-- 
2.19.1


-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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