From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
valentin.schneider@arm.com, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:34:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMzpN2g54zWYOAzmJdUm+1ziivkciLEeSDp4+b89KHkO4Lem+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190214193432.GR32477@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 2:34 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:18:01AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
> > > @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
> > > * order of the fields must match the code in __switch_to_asm().
> > > */
> > > struct inactive_task_frame {
> > > + unsigned long flags;
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > > unsigned long r15;
> > > unsigned long r14;
> >
> > flags should be initialized in copy_thread_tls(). I think the new
> > stack is zeroed already, but it would be better to explicitly set it.
>
> Ah indeed. I somehow misread that code and thought we got initialized
> with a copy of current.
>
> Something like the below, right?
>
> ---
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
> @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_
> struct task_struct *tsk;
> int err;
>
> + frame->flags = 0;
> frame->bp = 0;
> frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
> p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) fork_frame;
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
> @@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_
> childregs = task_pt_regs(p);
> fork_frame = container_of(childregs, struct fork_frame, regs);
> frame = &fork_frame->frame;
> + frame->flags = 0;
> frame->bp = 0;
> frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
> p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) fork_frame;
Yes, this looks good.
--
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2019-01-15 13:58 [PATCH v3 0/4] uaccess: Add unsafe accessors for arm64 Julien Thierry
2019-01-15 13:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] arm64: uaccess: Cleanup get/put_user() Julien Thierry
2019-01-15 13:58 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] arm64: uaccess: Implement unsafe accessors Julien Thierry
2019-01-15 13:58 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] uaccess: Check no rescheduling function is called in unsafe region Julien Thierry
2019-01-30 16:58 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-02-04 13:27 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-11 13:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-02-11 13:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-12 9:15 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-13 8:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-02-13 10:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 10:50 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-13 13:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 13:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 14:00 ` Will Deacon
2019-02-13 14:07 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-13 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 14:24 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-13 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 14:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 14:39 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-13 14:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 15:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 18:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <D61C430D-4321-4114-AB85-671A3C7B8EAE@amacapital.net>
2019-02-13 22:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 22:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-14 10:14 ` [PATCH] sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-14 16:18 ` Brian Gerst
2019-02-14 19:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-15 14:34 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2019-02-15 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-15 17:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-15 18:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-15 23:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-16 0:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-16 10:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-16 4:06 ` hpa
2019-02-16 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-18 22:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-02-19 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-19 2:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-19 2:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-02-19 9:07 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-19 8:53 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-19 9:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-19 9:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-19 9:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-19 9:21 ` hpa
2019-02-19 9:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-19 11:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-19 11:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-19 12:48 ` Will Deacon
2019-02-20 22:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-02-21 12:06 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-21 21:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-21 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 12:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-22 18:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-22 22:26 ` [RFC][PATCH] objtool: STAC/CLAC validation Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-22 23:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-23 8:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-22 23:39 ` hpa
2019-02-23 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-25 8:47 ` hpa
2019-02-25 13:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-01 15:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-25 8:49 ` hpa
2019-02-22 23:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-23 8:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-23 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-25 10:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-25 11:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-25 15:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-23 0:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-23 1:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-23 1:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-23 1:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-23 1:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-25 8:33 ` Julien Thierry
2019-02-25 11:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-21 12:46 ` [PATCH] sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch Will Deacon
2019-02-21 22:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-18 9:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-13 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] uaccess: Check no rescheduling function is called in unsafe region Linus Torvalds
2019-01-15 13:58 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] arm64: uaccess: Implement user_access_region_active Julien Thierry
2019-01-25 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] uaccess: Add unsafe accessors for arm64 Catalin Marinas
2019-01-30 16:17 ` Julien Thierry
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