From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF4C217F3 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:02:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2AFD5C433D6; Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:02:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1667199760; bh=qaMXDxnsfg+DlYvzYXYTTdaNUvsUyuXPJ3aJ1t71e00=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=S+x2xaBNIb/P8caSF8bgecYuIsrlid5wONvirQsNBRBm4bnDgCxgJN19iDJYBYAsO /eMfaPdohD9BSCsrtJTQec3FC9pXjB83Z0dEH8UYCAwLKARAPxywNiHQjPeDw2qRO/ PNxFDrx97Tv2/D72HQZgXWYGhuiUnYf1e1DMDOU8= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Borislav Petkov , Josh Poimboeuf , Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Subject: [PATCH 4.14 13/34] x86/bugs: Optimize SPEC_CTRL MSR writes Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:02:46 +0100 Message-Id: <20221031070140.424785451@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.38.1 In-Reply-To: <20221031070140.108124105@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20221031070140.108124105@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Peter Zijlstra commit c779bc1a9002fa474175b80e72b85c9bf628abb0 upstream. When changing SPEC_CTRL for user control, the WRMSR can be delayed until return-to-user when KERNEL_IBRS has been enabled. This avoids an MSR write during context switch. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static inline void indirect_branch_predi /* The Intel SPEC CTRL MSR base value cache */ extern u64 x86_spec_ctrl_base; -extern void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val); +extern void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val, bool force); /* * With retpoline, we must use IBRS to restrict branch prediction --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -61,13 +61,19 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(spec_ctrl_mutex); * Keep track of the SPEC_CTRL MSR value for the current task, which may differ * from x86_spec_ctrl_base due to STIBP/SSB in __speculation_ctrl_update(). */ -void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val) +void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val, bool force) { if (this_cpu_read(x86_spec_ctrl_current) == val) return; this_cpu_write(x86_spec_ctrl_current, val); - wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val); + + /* + * When KERNEL_IBRS this MSR is written on return-to-user, unless + * forced the update can be delayed until that time. + */ + if (force || !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_KERNEL_IBRS)) + wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val); } /* @@ -1191,7 +1197,7 @@ static void __init spectre_v2_select_mit if (spectre_v2_in_eibrs_mode(mode)) { /* Force it so VMEXIT will restore correctly */ x86_spec_ctrl_base |= SPEC_CTRL_IBRS; - write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base); + write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base, true); } switch (mode) { @@ -1246,7 +1252,7 @@ static void __init spectre_v2_select_mit static void update_stibp_msr(void * __unused) { - write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base); + write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base, true); } /* Update x86_spec_ctrl_base in case SMT state changed. */ @@ -1489,7 +1495,7 @@ static enum ssb_mitigation __init __ssb_ x86_amd_ssb_disable(); } else { x86_spec_ctrl_base |= SPEC_CTRL_SSBD; - write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base); + write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base, true); } } @@ -1694,7 +1700,7 @@ int arch_prctl_spec_ctrl_get(struct task void x86_spec_ctrl_setup_ap(void) { if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL)) - write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base); + write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base, true); if (ssb_mode == SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_DISABLE) x86_amd_ssb_disable(); --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static __always_inline void __speculatio } if (updmsr) - write_spec_ctrl_current(msr); + write_spec_ctrl_current(msr, false); } static unsigned long speculation_ctrl_update_tif(struct task_struct *tsk)