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* [PATCH v4 00/20] powerpc: Syscall wrapper and register clearing
@ 2022-08-24  2:05 Rohan McLure
  2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 01/20] powerpc: Remove asmlinkage from syscall handler definitions Rohan McLure
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From: Rohan McLure @ 2022-08-24  2:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev; +Cc: Rohan McLure

V3 available here:

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4C3A8815-67FF-41EB-A703-981920CA1201@linux.ibm.com/T/

Implement a syscall wrapper, causing arguments to handlers to be passed
via a struct pt_regs on the stack. The syscall wrapper is implemented
for all platforms other than the Cell processor, from which SPUs expect
the ability to directly call syscall handler symbols with the regular
in-register calling convention.

Adopting syscall wrappers requires redefinition of architecture-specific
syscalls and compatibility syscalls to use the SYSCALL_DEFINE and
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE macros, as well as removal of direct-references to
the emitted syscall-handler symbols from within the kernel. This work
lead to the following modernisations of powerpc's syscall handlers:

 - Replace syscall 82 semantics with sys_old_select and remove
   ppc_select handler, which features direct call to both sys_old_select
   and sys_select.
 - Use a generic fallocate compatibility syscall

Replace asm implementation of syscall table with C implementation for
more compile-time checks.

Many compatibility syscalls are candidates to be removed in favour of
generically defined handlers, but exhibit different parameter orderings
and numberings due to 32-bit ABI support for 64-bit parameters. The
parameter reorderings are however consistent with arm. A future patch
series will serve to modernise syscalls by providing generic
implementations featuring these reorderings.

The design of this syscall is very similar to the s390, x86 and arm64
implementations. See also Commit 4378a7d4be30 (arm64: implement syscall wrappers).
The motivation for this change is that it allows for the clearing of
register state when entering the kernel via through interrupt handlers
on 64-bit servers. This serves to reduce the influence of values in
registers carried over from the interrupted process, e.g. syscall
parameters from user space, or user state at the site of a pagefault.
All values in registers are saved and zeroized at the entry to an
interrupt handler and restored afterward. While this may sound like a
heavy-weight mitigation, many gprs are already saved and restored on
handling of an interrupt, and the mmap_bench benchmark on Power 9 guest,
repeatedly invoking the pagefault handler suggests at most ~0.8%
regression in performance. Realistic workloads are not constantly
producing interrupts, and so this does not indicate realistic slowdown.

Using wrapped syscalls yields to a performance improvement of ~5.6% on
the null_syscall benchmark on pseries guests, by removing the need for
system_call_exception to allocate its own stack frame. This amortises
the additional costs of saving and restoring non-volatile registers
(register clearing is cheap on super scalar platforms), and so the
final mitigation actually yields a net performance improvement of ~0.6%
on the null_syscall benchmark.

Patch Changelog:

 - Fix instances where NULLIFY_GPRS were still present
 - Minimise unrecoverable windows in entry_32.S between SRR0/1 restores
   and RFI
 - Remove all references to syscall symbols prior to introducing syscall
   wrapper.
 - Remove unnecessary duplication of syscall handlers with sys_... and
   powerpc_sys_... symbols.
 - Clear non-volatile registers on Book3E systems, as some of these
   systems feature hardware speculation, and we already unconditionally
   restore NVGPRS.

Rohan McLure (20):
  powerpc: Remove asmlinkage from syscall handler definitions
  powerpc: Use generic fallocate compatibility syscall
  powerpc/32: Remove powerpc select specialisation
  powerpc: Provide do_ppc64_personality helper
  powerpc: Remove direct call to personality syscall handler
  powerpc: Remove direct call to mmap2 syscall handlers
  powerpc: Adopt SYSCALL_DEFINE for arch-specific syscall handlers
  powerpc: Include all arch-specific syscall prototypes
  powerpc: Enable compile-time check for syscall handlers
  powerpc: Use common syscall handler type
  powerpc: Add ZEROIZE_GPRS macros for register clears
  Revert "powerpc/syscall: Save r3 in regs->orig_r3"
  powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper
  powerpc/64s: Clear/restore caller gprs in syscall interrupt/return
  powerpc/64s: Use {ZEROIZE,SAVE,REST}_GPRS macros in sc, scv 0 handlers
  powerpc/32: Clarify interrupt restores with REST_GPR macro in
    entry_32.S
  powerpc/64e: Clarify register saves and clears with
    {SAVE,ZEROIZE}_GPRS
  powerpc/64s: Fix comment on interrupt handler prologue
  powerpc/64s: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry in Book3S
  powerpc/64e: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                         |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h            |   5 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h         |   3 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h           |  22 +++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h           |  11 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall_wrapper.h   |  84 +++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscalls.h          | 128 +++++++++++++----
 .../ppc32.h => include/asm/syscalls_32.h}    |   0
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h            |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S               |  40 +++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S         |  31 ++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S         |  25 ++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S           |  92 +++++-------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c              |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c              |  54 ++++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c                |  32 ++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c               |  51 ++++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |  24 ++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/{systbl.S => systbl.c}   |  29 ++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c                   |   6 +-
 arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_32.c             |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c  |   6 +-
 .../arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl  |  24 ++--
 23 files changed, 415 insertions(+), 258 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall_wrapper.h
 rename arch/powerpc/{kernel/ppc32.h => include/asm/syscalls_32.h} (100%)
 rename arch/powerpc/kernel/{systbl.S => systbl.c} (55%)

-- 
2.34.1


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2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 01/20] powerpc: Remove asmlinkage from syscall handler definitions Rohan McLure
2022-08-25  7:04   ` Andrew Donnellan
2022-09-12  8:20   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 02/20] powerpc: Use generic fallocate compatibility syscall Rohan McLure
2022-09-12  8:38   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-12  9:57     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-09-12 11:00       ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-12 11:07         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 03/20] powerpc/32: Remove powerpc select specialisation Rohan McLure
2022-09-12  9:03   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15  4:36     ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 04/20] powerpc: Provide do_ppc64_personality helper Rohan McLure
2022-09-12  9:26   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 05/20] powerpc: Remove direct call to personality syscall handler Rohan McLure
2022-09-12  9:42   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 06/20] powerpc: Remove direct call to mmap2 syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12  9:47   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15  5:06     ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 07/20] powerpc: Adopt SYSCALL_DEFINE for arch-specific " Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:04   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 08/20] powerpc: Include all arch-specific syscall prototypes Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:33   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-13  7:09     ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 09/20] powerpc: Enable compile-time check for syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:42   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-13  2:29     ` Michael Ellerman
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 10/20] powerpc: Use common syscall handler type Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:56   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15  5:45     ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-16  1:02       ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 11/20] powerpc: Add ZEROIZE_GPRS macros for register clears Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:09   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15  5:47     ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 12/20] Revert "powerpc/syscall: Save r3 in regs->orig_r3" Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:14   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 13/20] powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:26   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 14/20] powerpc/64s: Clear/restore caller gprs in syscall interrupt/return Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:47   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 15/20] powerpc/64s: Use {ZEROIZE,SAVE,REST}_GPRS macros in sc, scv 0 handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:49   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 16/20] powerpc/32: Clarify interrupt restores with REST_GPR macro in entry_32.S Rohan McLure
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 17/20] powerpc/64e: Clarify register saves and clears with {SAVE,ZEROIZE}_GPRS Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 12:17   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 18/20] powerpc/64s: Fix comment on interrupt handler prologue Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:51   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 19/20] powerpc/64s: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry in Book3S Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 12:15   ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15  6:55     ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-16  0:43       ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24  2:05 ` [PATCH v4 20/20] powerpc/64e: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry Rohan McLure
2022-09-12  0:55 ` [PATCH v4 00/20] powerpc: Syscall wrapper and register clearing Rohan McLure

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