From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/ibrs: Add direct access support for MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:59:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1516024762.22147.173.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180115134500.GB2228@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
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On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 14:45 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:09:08AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > static_cpu_has() + asm-goto is NOT SUFFICIENT.
> >
> > It's still *possible* for a missed optimisation in GCC to still leave
> > us with a conditional branch around the wrmsr, letting the CPU
> > speculate around it too.
>
> OK, so GCC would have to be bloody retarded to mess this up;
Like *that's* never happened before? In corner cases where it just gets
confused and certain optimisations go out the window?
> but would something like the below work for you?
>
> The usage is like:
>
> if (static_branch_unlikely(key)) {
> arch_static_assert();
> stuff();
> }
>
> And then objtool will fail things if the first instruction into that
> branch is not immediately after a NOP/JMP patch site (on either the NOP
> or the JMP+disp side of things).
That seems reasonable; thanks. Bonus points if you can make the
arch_static_assert happen() automatically with vile tricks like
#define IF_FEATURE(ftr) if (static_cpu_has(ftr)) arch_static_assert,
So then it just becomes
IF_FEATURE(key) {
stuff();
}
There might not be a sane way to do that though. And it's OK to have to
manually annotate the call sites where this is for correctness and not
purely optimisation.
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-12 1:32 [PATCH 0/5] Add support for IBRS & IBPB KVM support Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/ibrs: Introduce native_rdmsrl, and native_wrmsrl Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 1:52 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 2:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 3:01 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 5:03 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-12 16:28 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-12 16:28 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-13 6:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-13 13:52 ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-13 15:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-13 6:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 7:54 ` Greg KH
2018-01-12 12:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/ibrs: Add new helper macros to save/restore MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/ibrs: Add direct access support for MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:58 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-12 3:14 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 10:09 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-15 13:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-15 13:59 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2018-01-15 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/svm: Direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 7:23 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 10:13 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 12:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-12 15:14 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/feature: Detect the x86 feature Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 12:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-12 12:39 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-12 15:21 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 15:31 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 15:36 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-12 17:06 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-02-01 21:59 [PATCH v6 0/5] KVM: Expose speculation control feature to guests KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] KVM: x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 17:37 ` Jim Mattson
2018-02-03 22:50 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/x86: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] KVM: x86: Add IBPB support KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 17:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 18:02 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 19:56 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:16 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 20:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:31 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 20:52 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2018-02-05 19:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-05 19:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-03 22:50 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/x86: " tip-bot for Ashok Raj
2018-02-16 3:44 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] KVM: x86: " Jim Mattson
2018-02-16 4:22 ` Andi Kleen
2018-05-03 1:27 ` Wanpeng Li
2018-05-03 9:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-03 12:01 ` Wanpeng Li
2018-05-03 12:46 ` Tian, Kevin
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] KVM: VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 10:53 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 17:35 ` Jim Mattson
2018-02-02 17:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-03 22:51 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/VMX: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 11:03 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 11:27 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 17:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 18:05 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 18:19 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 17:57 ` Jim Mattson
2018-02-03 22:51 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/VMX: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] KVM: SVM: " KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 11:06 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 18:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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